Bee

“she will stride up to the client, shake his hand firmly (yet femininely), while looking him warmly (yet confidently) in the eye and smiling innocently, and delivering her name unto him with perfectly clipped Received Pronunciation, showing off her pretty (thank-god-they're-not-too-thick) lips coated in a discreet shade of pink, baring her perfect teeth as he adjusts to the collision between reality and expectation, and tries not to show it while she assumes control of the situation and conversation.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“What matters most to me, is that I know how I feel, and the rest of the world might catch up one day, even if it’ll be a quiet revolution over longer than my lifetime, if it happens at all”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“she’s never complained about her lot, or argued with him, a sure sign she’s oppressed”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“they would be a voice in theatre where there was silence black and Asian women’s stories would get out there they would create theatre on their own terms it became the company’s motto On Our Own Terms or Not At All.”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other