Nadia Meyer

“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow. It’s easy to point at other men, conveniently dead, starting with the ones who first scooped up mud from riverbanks to catch the scent of a source. Why, Dr. Livingstone, I presume, wasn’t he the rascal! He and all the profiteers who’ve since walked out on Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“people’s judgments about you are none of your business.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“And one of them is, when men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that’s going to change the whole wide world.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“On the day of my first period, I was more dead doe than human woman. Was womanhood always so violent, raw?”
― Jade Song, Chlorine