Pchu

“Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“They’re afraid because we exist, she says. There’s nothing we did to provoke their fear, other than exist. There’s nothing we can do to earn their approval, except stop existing – so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“I said quietly without knowing I was going to say it, "But, Mother, you have made many mistakes too,”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years