Thủy Nguyễn

“Họ muốn con mình có bằng cấp của Tây, nhưng nếu chúng thấm nhuần văn hoá và suy nghĩ phương Tây - ví dụ con gái không chịu lấy chồng hay con trai mà đi học triết học - thì họ sẽ rất hốt hoảng. Người Việt không muốn thành phương Tây đâu, họ chỉ mơ cuộc sống vật chất phương Tây mà thôi. Có thể nói là giấc mơ phương Tây bị mắc kẹt trong cái bảo thủ phương Đông.”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own