Thaís Soares

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Era a Nossa Senhora da minha infância, do quadrinho na parede, da medalhinha. A propósito, sou mariana - com muita unção - porque vejo em Maria a primeira feminista poderosamente atuante ao dar a Deus a permissão de lhe gerar um filho nas entranhas: "Faça em mim segundo a Sua vontade".”
― Fernanda Montenegro, Prólogo, ato, epílogo: memórias

“- Seu José, mestre carpina,
e que interesse, me diga,
há nessa vida a retalho
que é cada dia adquirida?
espera poder um dia
comprá-la em grandes partidas?
- Severino, retirante,
não sei bem o que lhe diga:
não é que espere comprar
em grosso de tais partidas,
mas o que compro a retalho
é, de qualquer forma, vida.”
― João Cabral de Melo Neto, Morte e Vida Severina e Outros Poemas Para Vozes

“I've been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people - world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Some (though not enough) of them are women. Some (though not enough) are black or of color. Some were born poor or have lives that to many of us would appear to have been unfairly heaped with adversity, and yet still they seem to operate as if they've had every advantage in the world. What I've learned is this: All of them have had doubters. Some continue to have roaring, stadium-sized collection of critics and naysayers who will shout I told you so at every little misstep or mistake. The noise doesn't go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming