Widya Kumarasinghe

“The sleep was like as it had been cut out from a slab of clay, round and clean.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Feminism is a political project about what could be. It's always looking forward, invested in futures we can't quite grasp yet. It's a way of wishing, hoping, aiming, at everything that has been deemed impossible.”
― Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“A commitment to disrupting the state's violence when and where we see it takes feminism outside of the realm of words and theories and makes it a living, breathing set of principles. It reminds us that where we can make interventions, we should and that only work that seeks to shake and unsettle the very foundations of the sexist state is feminist work.”
― Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“Things just happen and we have to accept them. Happiness and sadness are for people who can control what happens to them.”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, The Story of a Brief Marriage