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Isabel Allende
“No intelligent woman can trust that any man will protect her,”
Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I do like my life. I flail for meaning sometimes, maybe too often, but it is a full life, and a life I own. I have learned this of myself, that I cannot do without people and I cannot do without stretches of sustained isolation. To be alone is not always to be lonely. Sometimes I withdraw for weeks merely to be with myself, and I sink into reading, my life’s great pleasure, and I think, and I enjoy the silence of my own musing.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

R.F. Kuang
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Maggie O'Farrell
“The gown rustles and slides around her, speaking a glossolalia all of its own, the silk moving against the rougher nap of the underskirts, the bone supports of the bodice straining and squealing against their coverings, the cuffs scuffing and chafing the skin of her wrists, the stiffened collar hooking and nibbling at her nape, the hip supports creaking like the rigging of a ship. It is a symphony, an orchestra of fabrics, and Lucrezia would like to cover her ears, but she cannot.”
Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

Grady Hendrix
“She remembered her mom saying that when you got a gift that's all you got, but when you gave a gift you gave two, one to the other person and one to yourself.”
Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

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