Quote by Ursula Maria Mandel

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me…

— George Eliot

“But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless…

— Sarah Mayberry

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.”

— Michael Scott

“At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those…

— Orson Scott Card

“It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then…

— Diane Schoemperlen

“Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.”

— Shanthi Sekaran

“The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others.…

— Paulo Coelho

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich