21 Quotes by Phyllis Rose

The literature of women’s lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

These aren’t accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.

I wanted to make people aware of libraries as an ecosystem that are threatened in the same way as coral reefs. There’s a kind of serendipity that occurs in a library that never happens online. Browsing a stack is a unique experience: that feeling of being attracted by a book, by its cover or typography. What makes me melancholy is the thought of books disappearing from libraries.