Dioni

“The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Since women, for many years, were denied the journey, they were left with only one plot in their lives --
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― Mary Morris, The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers