Ioana

“I bore no responsibility in any of this. With my reduced muscular strenght, I couldn't afford to bear any.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“What if Ruby hadn’t felt like motherhood wasn’t the only path to fulfillment? What if she’d been encouraged to explore all facets of herself beyond what her family told her was right for someone born a woman? Maybe if she’d had the chance to pour herself into a high powered career like banking or physics, fields where empathy isn’t exactly a priority she wouldn’t have seen her kids as employees and extensions of herself or maybe she wouldn’t have had kids at all.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.”
― Annie Ernaux, The Possession

“Poate că în zilele noastre ne despărțim așa ușor pentru că avem impresia că merităm ceva mai bun și că acel ceva e foarte accesibil.”
― Lavinia Braniște, Mă găsești când vrei