Karlyn Marcantonio

“Whiteness and maleness are silent precisely because they do not need to be vocalized. Whiteness and maleness are implicit. They are unquestioned. They are the default. And this reality is inescapable for anyone whose identity does not go without saying, for anyone whose needs and perspective are routinely forgotten. For anyone who is used to jarring up against a world that has not been designed around them.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it.”
― Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton

“I hate to be the one to break the news, but epic love stories don’t end with one partner decapitating the other.”
― Hayley Nolan, Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies

“You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands