JoAnne Styger

“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 you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“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