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“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“If I was a color, I would be white, vast in my blankness. Pure, whole, virginal, predictable.

Boring.

The colors thrown at me didn't bleed into my canvas and leave a mark. The colors washed out with nothing but water. That's what made this story so hard to remember. It's hard facing a mirror and seeing all you are made of and all you couldn't absorb.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“But you did save her, Claudia! You saved her from that house for years and you didn't even know it.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming