Zhaket Quotes & Sayings

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human. — Rebecca Solnit

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

If the aegis of the Almighty cover thee, what sword can smite thee? Rest thou secure. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book. — Mat Johnson

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. — Sophocles

In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? — Sharon Creech

I think women have been cheating widely as much as men have. — Junot Diaz