Carrie

“Librarianship was not just a job for her, but her tikkun olam, the Hebrew phrase for “repairing the world.”
― Kate Stewart, A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport

“In her application to Berkeley’s School of Librarianship, she wrote that watching book burnings and reading banned books had inspired her to become a librarian.”
― Kate Stewart, A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport

“The more you read, the more you realize that a book’s unputdownability is actually a technical matter—a craft matter—that is mostly separate from any beauty or truth it may possess.”
― Naomi Kanakia, The Cynical Writer's Guide To The Publishing Industry: How to Convince the Gatekeepers that Your Book is a Potential Bestseller

“Ruth, just ten years old at the time, heard that it was happening. She set out to see it for herself and described the heaps of books set on fire in the road. She was stunned to see this happening in her hometown, the world-famous city of books, and did everything in her might to not cry as she passed by and watched.”
― Kate Stewart, A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport