Candi

“… there is a thrilling feeling of happiness that comes from having your loved ones visit you at the hospital. It’s so out of the way, and so completely not what anyone wants to be doing, that when they do it, you know the only plausible reason is because they care for you.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.”
― Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman

“Fictions are not make-believe. We have come to understand this better through the medium of sci-fi, as so much of what begins as a futuristic fantasy becomes an ordinary part of the world we know.

Fiction is much more than social-realist cut-outs of contemporary life. More than representation. Fiction declares and debates inner realities that gradually press forward into our outer circumstances. We catch up with our dreams.”
― Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin Two Lamps

“I mention these women only to prove that intellect is not sexed; that strength of mind is not sexed; and that our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.”
― Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman