Erika

“Am I allowed to read books like these? Aren’t they banned?” “Technically, yes, but books shouldn’t be banned. Ignorance should not be a goal.”
― M. Hendrix, The Chaperone

“So we spend summers in Houston, in Sylvie and Salvador’s guest room.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

“me (and maybe only for me) it would be a sort of sick, insane thing to do, a way of mutilating my real life as a gesture of submission to an imagined future. I don’t want to belong to a political movement that makes me view my own body with suspicion and terror. No matter what we think or fear about the future of civilisation, women all over the world will go on having babies, and I belong with them, and any child I might have belongs with their children. I know in a thin rationalist way that what I’m saying doesn’t make any sense. But I feel it, I feel it, and I know it to be true.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“What keeps the pay gap in existence is not just the entitlement and complicity of men. It’s the gratitude of women. Our gratitude is how power uses the tokenism of a few women to keep the rest of us in line.”
― Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game