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“Rarely can they claim to be simply a mirror of events. Like eyewitness reports, images deliver an interpretation of an event from a specific perspective: subjective, sometimes partisan, sometimes manipulative. Anyone who believes a photograph captures "reality" is naïve. Why a picture was taken, who distributed it, what their intention was - these questions must be asked again and again. Photographs can only speak to us only after we have mistrusted and challenged them.”
― Peter Stepan, Photos that Changed the World

“She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it.
They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.”
― Tillie Olsen, Silences

“When I was young, literature was not about the things it is about for me now. Literature was about the chance to peek into other people to see if I was like them.”
― Jacquelyn Ardam, Avidly Reads Poetry