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“There were no words to speak to him of how I felt. Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Women wrote their names on scraps of paper or cloth and shoved them through cracks in the carriage walls, hoping against hope to be remembered.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order