JoAnne Styger

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Not for her the domestic toil that “crushes and degrades women” (Lenin’s words). Not for her nursery drudgery, so “barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking, stultifying” (Lenin again). No, under socialism, society would assume all such burdens, eventually eradicating the nuclear family. “The real emancipation of women, real communism, will begin,” predicted Lenin in 1919, “only where and when an all-out struggle begins … against … petty … housekeeping.” In”
― Anya von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

“If sex “is about persons being bodies together,”8 then chastity is about the right bodies being together at the right time. Chastity, then, is “not the mere absence of sex but an active conforming of one’s body to the arc of the gospel.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books