Anna Maria Mori

"It is easier to forgive a woman for her ugliness than for her intelligence."

"Women are strong with occasional moments of weakness, which men can't stand. Men are weak with occasional moments of arrogance."

"Men do things without saying them. Women often say things without doing them."

"Men seek self-affirmation. Women seek approval."

"I wish I could see only beauty … erase History and the stories, the lies, the half-truths … I want to send everyone away from here, even myself with my memories."

"I write to escape: from what I do, what I say, how I appear. To search for something else, something different that I know exists but keeps eluding me. I write to express my disobedience, my non-belonging, my anarchy, my secret pain, my otherness. I write to 'try to recreate myself'."