Caitlin

“...perhaps that was the great ill of the world, that those prone to evil were left untouched by guilt to a degree so vast that they might sleep through a storm, while better men, conscience-stained men, lay awake as though that very storm persisted unyieldingly in the furthest reaches of their soul.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

“These new friends had fought for suffrage, they had won, and now they were determined to use the vote to advance women’s interests. They did not define themselves by their achievements as wives. Their zeal, their brains, their integrity, the inspiring vision they brought to politics—all of it was thrilling to Eleanor. The activists she met in the 1920s became her tribe. •   •   • They were also her teachers—indeed, it’s possible to say they invented her.”
― Laura Shapiro, What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

“You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me when this inclination passes.

(Catherine, in a letter to Grigory Potemkin).”
― Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

“knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead