Catherine Meijer

“Nothing that’s worth saying is proper.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Candida

“I'd be in such a hurry to get into bed, nice and quiet, and imagine things”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It is only after we have been enabled to say, “Be it unto me according to your Word,” that we can accept the paradoxes of Christianity. Christ comes to live with us, bringing an incredible promise of God’s love, but never are we promised that there will be no pain, no suffering, no death, but rather that these very griefs are the road to love and eternal life. In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love, that love which will redeem all the brokenness, wrongness, hardnesses of heart which have afflicted us.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

“I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say “Go away and don’t be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society