Jess Carvey

“One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking. A double not thinking, even: men go without saying, and women don’t get said at all. Because when we say human, on the whole, we mean man.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“For the first time, she understood the liberation of having nothing left to lose.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“People who’ve never gone without find it easy to pass judgment on those who’ve struggled.”
― Jeannette Walls, Hang the Moon

“So many women are natural mamas, but the harder I try, the more I see that I’m not one of them.”
― Jeannette Walls, Hang the Moon