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lunastation , 1 hour ago to random

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

lunastation , 7 hours ago to random

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

lunastation , 13 hours ago to random

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. - Patricia A. McKillip

lunastation , 19 hours ago to random

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

lunastation , 1 day ago to random

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. - Muriel Rukeyser

lunastation , 1 day ago to random

Today I've posted the first in a series of interviews with our editors. Come meet Sara Playfair:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/editor-interview-106396546?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

I'd also still love your feedback on Patreon benefits: https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-check-106495304?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

These posts are public, come join the crew for more.

#writing #reading #shortstories #magazine #fantasy #scifi #womenauthors

lunastation , 1 day ago to random

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

lunastation , 1 day ago to random

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

lunastation , 1 day ago to random

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

lunastation , 2 days ago to random

How can we use each other's differences in our common battles for a livable future? - Audre Lorde

lunastation , 2 days ago to random

I'm running a public poll right now on our Patreon and would love your input. What benefits do you find valuable as a thank you for supporting LSQ? What would you like to see that would make you sign up to support us financially?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-check-106495304?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

lunastation , 2 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 2 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 2 days ago to random

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. - Hilary Mantel

lunastation , 3 days ago to random

What would happen if we spoke the truth? - Alison Bechdel

lunastation , 3 days ago to random

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin

lunastation , 4 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 4 days ago to random

Calling all women-identified speculative fiction authors! We're now open for submissions for our December issue!

https://submissions.lunastationpress.com/

#writing #womenauthors #magazines #shortstories #fantasy #sci-fi

lunastation , 4 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 4 days ago to random

An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length. - Virginia Woolf

lunastation , 4 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 5 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 5 days ago to random

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

lunastation , 5 days ago to random

Power’s not given to you. You have to take it. - Beyoncé Knowles Carter

lunastation , 5 days ago to random

How can we use each other's differences in our common battles for a livable future? - Audre Lorde

lunastation , 6 days ago to random

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Ursula K. Le Guin

lunastation , 6 days ago to random

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

lunastation , 7 days ago to random

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. - Patricia A. McKillip

lunastation , 7 days ago to random

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. - Octavia E. Butler

lunastation , 7 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 7 days ago to random

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn

lunastation , 8 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 8 days ago to random

An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length. - Virginia Woolf

lunastation , 8 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 8 days ago to random

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

lunastation , 8 days ago to random

This evening I took a little time to write about my graphic design background and stepping back in time to bring that work forward.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/resurfacing-old-106100518?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

lunastation , 9 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 9 days ago to random

Why write stories? To join the conversation. - Dorothy Allison

lunastation , 9 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 9 days ago to random

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

lunastation , 9 days ago to random

LSQ as a whole, with reviews of a few stories from our back catalog, was featured in the most recent issue of Fusion Fragment.

How cool is that!

You can pick up a pay-what-you-want copy here: https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-21/

lunastation , 10 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 10 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 10 days ago to random

Stories are a different kind of true. - Emma Donoghue

lunastation , 10 days ago to random

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me. - Mae Jemison

lunastation , 11 days ago to random

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

lunastation , 15 days ago to random

I'm thinking about bringing our Ko-fi and buymeacoffee pages in parity with Patreon, posting the same content in all 3 places.

I've heard that some folks prefer not to use Patreon. Would these other options be of interest to you all?