Mary Stred

“the way you navigate the world will never be more important than the type of person you are.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“I want to work at a library someday," I said. "I want to spend every waking day of my adult life surrounded by books.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Reading transported me to exotic places, fascinating periods in history, and worlds that were vastly different from my own.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“...I realized that the words most often used to define us were words that described our function in relation to others. Even the most benign words- maiden, wife, mother - told the world whether we were virgins or not. What was the male equivalent of maiden? I could not think of it. What was the male equivalent of Mrs., of whore, of common scold?... Which words would define me? Which would be used to judge or contain?”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words