Luna Station Quarterly

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. - Mae Jemison

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. - Audre Lorde

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. - Judy Blume

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing. – Anonymous

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

Stories written by humans for humans are more important than ever, and LSQ has been proving that for seventeen years. Support us on Patreon and get a copy of our new spring issue. We hope you'll slow down and stay awhile. 🖤 https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/065

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.' – Helen Exley

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

A dirty book is rarely dusty. - anonymous

If you can imagine something, it will be. - N. K. Jemisin

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.' — Leonora Carrington

The values of patriarchy are buried in the very plots of our stories. New plots are needed.' — Karen Joy Fowler

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. - Martha Nussbaum

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. - Toni Morrison

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. - Gail Carson Levine

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. - Gertrude Stein

A word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

Communication is health; communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty. - Virginia Woolf

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back, and they won't be false, and they won't be true, but they'll be real. - Mary Oliver

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. - Madeleine L'Engle

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. - Jane Austen, Persuasion

Attention without feeling... is only a report. - Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

Communication is health; communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty. – Virginia Woolf

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady M. W. Montagu

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. - Madeleine L'Engle

The values of patriarchy are buried in the very plots of our stories. New plots are needed.' — Karen Joy Fowler

Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen. - Ruth Krauss

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me. - Maya Angelou