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“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”
― Chanel Miller

“And then I crossed the street, with no arm to hold me back.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“It’s so simple, what happened at St. Paul’s. It happens all the time. First, they refused to believe me. Then they shamed me. Then they silenced me. On balance, if this is a girl’s trajectory from dignity to disappearance, I say it is better to be a slut than to be silent. I believe, in fact, that the slur slut carries within it, Trojan-horse style, silence as its true intent. That the opposite of slut is not virtue but voice.”
― Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing

“And now, ever so slowly, the sun began to lift itself over the chalk outline of the Cascades. It was like some sort of exercise, a single quick pull-up, that the heavy sphere did every day. Purely as a favor to the inhabitants of Earth—that was its purpose, to rise & shine, just as every person it shone down on had a purpose.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up