Status Updates From Every Day I Read: 53 Ways t...

“Instead of being on the extreme ends of the spectrum, I probably oscillate in between. In the daytime, I’m happy to be true to myself, but at night, I start to worry that I have less than my peers. And probably I'll keep feeling this way for years to come. And because I swing in between happiness and anxiety most of the time, this means a particularly good day will feel extra blissful, doesn't it?”

“Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be?:

‘If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living ... If I am who I am and not what I have, nobody can deprive me of or threaten my security and my sense of identity.’

“Books are like a spider's web; you'll only get more attached.”

This book is a short collection of reflective essays about everything reading - when to read, what to read, how to read, how to talk about reading with friends… everything! I’ve never felt so seen as a reader as I feel by Hwang in this treasure of a book. Who hasn’t dreamt about being absorbed in a book while sipping a delicious cappuccino in a busy Italian piazza but when moment came was unable to?

“Lee's foreword made an impression on me:

‘What is important to the women is the clear understanding of themselves and their lives, knowing that they shouldn't live for others but for themselves... They bear the shackles of fate, but never once did they back down and give in. Amidst the stereotypes, the absurdity, and the exhaustion, they do not lose sight of the power of intellect and wisdom.”

“Lee Hwa-gyeong's To Love, To Write, To Destroy, a book about ten women writers who had it harder in life just because they were born as women and lived as women - Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg, Simone de Beauvoir, Ingeborg Bachmann, Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Françoise Sagan, Sylvia Plath and Jane Austen.“

“Whenever I feel a little lost, I think about my favourite books. Instead of letting myself be swayed by others, I turn to books that have anchored me and continue to be a supportive presence in my life. And the more of such books I collect, the stronger I become.”

“The classics are those books about wich you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…’, never ‘I’m reading…’”
i honestly haven’t thought about how many classics i’ve read…also what is a classic? like who decides what’s a classic?