Jessi

“Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“A stupid man is every woman’s downfall.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop