Disha

“In her 1988 biography of [Frances] Burney, Margaret Anne Doody said as much: "It is as if there were a quota for female fiction writers, preferably no more than one per century or at most per half-century. We have one already in Austen, the position is filled."... The Smurfette Principle has proven especially applicable in the formation of the Western literary canon. Between women writers, you have to beat the best or you don't get to play at all.”
― Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen's Bookshelf

“History, like human life, is at once incredibly fast and agonizingly slow.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Maybe it's that I find the idea comforting...that thousands of years after you're gone...is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice is.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War