The New Parisienne Quotes

“why the Espace des Femmes, one of the places I love to bring visitors, is so important. It’s a bookstore, publisher, and gallery space dedicated to the work of women writers.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“In France, there’s the idea that your life as an individual doesn’t stop just because you have kids, and the country created an environment for women to be able to go back into the workforce fairly easily and quickly.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“the moment, INSEAD is in the top three schools in the world graduating women per year. Still,”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“As of right now, Isabelle Kocher is one of only two female CEOs on the CAC40 (the other is Anne Rigail, CEO of Air France).75 The percentage of women in senior roles is slowly growing worldwide, and at the current pace we won’t reach parity until 2060, so we have so much work”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“You belong here. Don’t let your inner voice get in the way.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“you want to build the kind of start-up that solves people’s problems then you’ll have a home here and you’ll be surrounded by people that care about those things.” And with any luck, Borlongan will be waiting on the other side.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Mounir Mahjoubi, the former secretary of state for digital affairs in the Macron administration, encouraged her to apply for the director position of La French Tech, a role that would have her speaking on behalf of France and working to ensure that the government is a better partner to start-ups in their growth.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Open Data Institute in Paris, and served as an open data advisor to the French government, all of which anchored her to an ecosystem that was fast emerging as a European start-up hub.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“she co-ran Five by Five, a consulting agency she founded with open-data pioneer Chloé Bonnet that built or reinforced innovation teams within large organizations and start-ups.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“To be honest, I don’t think I would have gotten here if I weren’t a woman. There are so few of us in this industry, it’s easier to get noticed.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“With bioluminescence, we have a biological energy source that can grow endlessly and that produces a 100 percent organic raw material. It’s sustainable energy.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Most lighting systems are made from LED produced in China from black metals drawn by destroying Chinese land. It’s unbelievable pollution that no one talks about.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“The government understood that innovative start-ups were the economic force of tomorrow. The growth potential isn’t necessarily in big corporations.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“World Economic Forum after several years as associate director of the Technology Pioneer Program, working to identify disruptive start-ups that were improving the state of the world,”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“of my mentors, Mary Jane Braide, who runs a design and branding firm in Toronto.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Sense of Something Coming, a nod to her favorite poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Affordable education and socialized health care make the difference when you’re starting out,” she says. “They allow you to ascend.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“started studying applied arts at the prestigious École Estienne in the early nineties”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Tatiana de Rosnay and Daphne du Maurier)”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“La Princesse de Montpensier was added.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Later, we came out with Un Poème Un Jour and then the English app, A Text A Day. We have six different apps available now.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Régine Deforges, an editor, playwright, and novelist, who strived to distribute erotic literature in France (which is rarely read despite being talked about so often). She worked to bring out stories that had been circulating illicitly and to help new voices emerge. I devoured her series, The Blue Bicycle, when I was a teenager. As”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“Un Texte Un Jour (followed later by its English version, A Text A Day),”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“For more than a decade, she has taught literature to fifteen-year-olds at the Lycée Charles de Foucauld in the 18th arrondissement, passing on her infectious love for the classics.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“these anonymous women were catalysts, it was the work of women like Virginia Woolf or Gisèle Halimi that gave her the intellectual tools to conceptualize the fight for women’s and human rights.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“By inflecting the everyday with the bleak and sinister, she reminds us that behind even the most outwardly composed lives are people, humans, negotiating their desires, struggling to navigate social and professional dynamics, and sometimes flailing in despair.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“prizewinning first novel, Adèle (dans le jardin de l’ogre),”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“of 2016, she was one of twelve women and only the second Moroccan to have been awarded the prize, first granted in 1903, and the success of the book instantly propelled her into the limelight and captured the attention of the country’s political and intellectual elite.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“framed portrait of Slimani from 2016 when she received the Goncourt Prize, France’s highest literary honor, for her wrenching second novel, The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce);”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

“George Sand is often known better for her connection with Chopin than for her writing, despite the fact that she is the second-bestselling French novelist (after Hugo). Simone de Beauvoir is often referenced in relation to Sartre (and there is a place attributed to both of them in the 6th arrondissement); and few people realize that the Shakespeare and Company bookstore is not, in fact, the original.”
― Lindsey Tramuta, The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris