WadeofEarth

“If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“People don’t want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in,”
― Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator