Yria Ly

“Some of the cultural, legal and political disparities between men and women reflect the obvious biological differences between the sexes. Childbearing has always been women’s job, because men don’t have wombs. Yet around this hard universal kernel, every society accumulated layer upon layer of cultural ideas and norms that have little to do with biology. Societies associate a host of attributes with masculinity and femininity that, for the most part, lack a firm biological basis.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens - A brief history of humankind (Marathi)

“L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I:

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Hearing ain’t the same as listening.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, The Black God's Drums