Sara

“distance. If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere.” The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“LADY WINDERMERE. Are all men bad? DUCHESS OF BERWICK. Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan [with Biographical Introduction]

“I have learned nothing. The past remains as obscure as ever. The future as uncertain.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“Once, when she was around eight years old, she wrote a list of unusual things, one item of which was female pilots. She asked her parents, her teachers, how many female pilots there were in Japan and the answer turned out to be none, in the military at least. None. And a seed was sown in a resolute mind, a methodical and fearless and crystalline mind.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital