Leslie

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Respectable people... What bastards!”
― Émile Zola, The Belly of Paris

“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.”
― Lucinda Fleeson, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

“I do not know of any religion that does not declare women to be feeble-minded, unclean, generally inferior creatures to males, although most Humans assume that we are the cream of all species. Women, alas; but thank God, Homo Sapiens! Most of us, I hope, are now aware that a woman should not have to demand Rights. The Rights were there from the beginning; they must be Taken Back Again, including the Mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal, probably of one’s own species.”
― Leonora Carrington