Licia Borrelli

“No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.


Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.


I prayed one word: I want.


Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.”
― Sappho

“Chinese men refer to their wives as neiren, “person of the inner chamber,” or neizi, “the inner one.” The word nei is opposed to the word wai, or “outer.” By keeping woman as his own property, a man cloisters his wife within the walls and deprives her of her basic freedom”
― He Zhen, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

“Uno stato d'animo si può comunicare solo attraverso un'opera d'arte. Necessariamente un libro o è una discussione, una esposizione di certe nozioni o informazioni oppure è un'opera d'arte.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Avanzi popolo

“Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women.”
― He-Yin Zhen