Maya

“His approach was alarmingly effective: I’d started to question my own response to everything. The story he told so, so well was that I was overreacting, overemotional, defensive, difficult, high maintenance. And there was no way I could respond without proving him right.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“That’s the thing about voicing your needs: The world tells you how bad you’ll look if you do it. But no one tells you how great you’ll feel.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“...I read voraciously in the hope that I’ll become a better person someday.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“It’s a hard thing to learn: that we can ask things of other people, that we can order food how we want it.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury