January 12. — I think that the best literary education of a writer would be for him, from the time he left college until he was twenty-five or thirty, to write down without any conventions whatever he saw and felt — and, while doing so, as much as possible trying to forget everything he had read. - From the Journal of the De Goncourts - 1865
"To browse through the Epstein photos is to identify, through its absence, what must be most terrifying to men in this circle: a woman with thoughts. Opinions, a voice, and the sense of safety to deploy them were plainly so threatening to this little society that great care might have been taken to avoid them." - Anand Giridharadas