Elena

“The male members of the species Homo sapiens appealed to me a great deal. They were soft and small and had fragile but adorable teeth. Their fingers were delicately constructed, the fingernails all but nonexistent. Sometimes they reminded me of stuffed animals, lovely to hold in one's arms.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

“Equally misplaced was the notion “maternal instinct.” With animals, childrearing is a matter not of instinct but of art. It can’t be very much different for humans or they wouldn’t keep adopting children of different species.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

“Why do panda bears bore you?"
"Since they're born wearing such impressive makeup, they don't make any effort to be interesting. They neither master any stageworthy tricks nor write autobiographies.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

“This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear