Kate Seader

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
― Nevada Barr

“perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”
― Nevada Barr, 13½