Mandi

“I had the distinct understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the world: It was mid at best. No power. No credit. No rights. Just a lot of people being mad at you for not being perfect when perfection was a moving goalpost. I was just supposed to accept that that was the way the world operated.”
― Ziwe Fumudoh, Black Friend: Funny, incisive essays on navigating Blackness, tokenism, and friendship in predominantly white spaces.

“Common law had it that conjugal rights were forever, at any time, at any place, and by any means necessary. Marital rape, then, was an impossibility, an unresolvable paradox. How can you rape someone when the law says she is permanently, and irrevocably, at your beck and call, subject to your every whim, however violent and damaging?”
― Sarah Weinman, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

“Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open. If we’re not open to losing, we’re not open to loving.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“I do not exist just to move plot. While I am a supportive friend, I am not a supporting character. I am the protagonist of my perfectly imperfect story.”
― Ziwe Fumudoh, Black Friend: Funny, incisive essays on navigating Blackness, tokenism, and friendship in predominantly white spaces.