Donna Herrick

“Representing the voices of all those whose existence has shaped and formed the world in which we live provides an essential protection against the fascist myth.”
― Jason F. Stanley

“Our lives change. What was valued, necessary to us last year, imperceptibly loses its urgency, becomes discarded. People you had thought you loved, occupations that engaged your eager attention, where are they now? Correspondence on a cause once vital is laid aside to be read another day. Across the room at an exhibit you see a face dear to you as your face was dear to him a year ago. You give each other a nod of casual friendliness. If you are near enough you greet each other with a pricking, a stir in memory of happiness, of quarrels. You may smile at each other ruefully, make a date for lunch, but the hot animating flame has died. We move on to new work, new loves. And if there are vacuums, if at times the hear cries out, we busy ourselves investing our energies elsewhere.

It isn't until years later that you learn each project, each relationship, long or short, has left its mark, changed obliquely your understanding of yourself or others.”
― Erma J. Fisk, A Cape Cod Journal

“The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”
― Jane Rule

“Discord in our thoughts, ideas and compel us to think, re-evaluate and criticize.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind