Gerry Mander

“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“The danger we present, as writers, is not that we will simply convince their children of a different dogma but that we will convince them that they have the power to form their own.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984