Velma Deleonardo

“When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small?”
― Emem Uko

“Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“If I ain’t nothing but trouble, you ain’t nothing but Nothing.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You’re being punished by your anger.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women