Jenna Dial

“She existed, just like everyone else. But there seemed to be a difference, between existing and not existing. No one had explained to Elsa how the invisible borders had been drawn, and she didn’t ask either.”
― Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

“A good woman. How odd that the phrase has such a particular meaning. One might say “a good man” and mean anything — there are as many ways of being a good man, it seems, as there are of being a man at all. But there is only one way to be a good woman. It is such a narrow, stunted, blighted way to be that I wonder any woman throughout history has been up to the task. Perhaps none of us ever have.”
― Elliott Gish, Grey Dog

“Perhaps one day (...) there will be a safer time, when women could walk the Earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“She was a great girl-shaped forest. She was a thing on fire. Her hand was leaves and smoke and snow and flesh all at once.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny