Susan Sontag’s quotes
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all.”
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”
Recommended read:
Amelia Earhart
June 17-18, 1928 – First woman to fly across the Atlantic; 20hrs 40min
1928 – Published book, 20 Hours 40 Minutes and became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
(resource www.ameliaearhart.com )