Estefania

“I don’t need to change my shape to make myself worthy of someone’s love. I don’t need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I’m visible; to believe I am here. (...) Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and sentences twisting around my mind are enough. My early morning walks and light night baths are enough. My singing in the shower, my double jointed toes and my loud laugh in the pub is enough. I am my own universe. I am the warm up act, the main event and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is - just me, the trees, the sky and the sea- I know now that that’s enough. I am whole. I am complete. I will never run out.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“You're still a kid, you know.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun: A Compelling YA Fantasy of Academic Rivals and Secret Powers

“Los varones controlan el poder político y económico, la cultura y las costumbres, proclaman las leyes y las aplican a su antojo y cuando las presiones sociales y el aparato legal no bastan para someter a las mujeres más alzadas, interviene la religión con su innegable sello patriarcal. Lo imperdonable es que son las madres quienes se encargan de perpetuar y reforzar el sistema, criando hijos arrogantes e hijas serviciales; si se pusieran de acuerdo para hacerlo de otro modo podrían terminar con el machismo en una generación”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere