"After four years of college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father still shakes his head and even now and says I wasted all that education."

from Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

"Do you know what a foreign accent is?
It's a sign of bravery."

Amy Chua. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the ones that I have loved, all the cities I have visited."

Jorge Luis Borges