Candi

“I sounded more confident than I felt; one of the great secrets to life.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1

“Long ago, our ancestors understood that the brain is driven to tell stories and passed along our culture and traditions in that way. For instance, older people like to tell stories over and over again, and young children like to hear stories repeated often. There is a lock-and-key mechanism for transmission of oral culture across generations.”
― Mary Annette Pember, Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

“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

“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