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“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The festival board doesn't actually want to change the demographic makeup of its headliners; they want to fund a three-year committee report about changing the demographic makeup of its headliners. It allows them to print the word 'Inclusivity' in a silver foil font on the festival program without ever risking the comfort of their core demographic.”
― Meg Mason, Sophie, Standing There

“The modern literary panel is a masterpiece of corporate optics. They will seat three minority debut novelists next to a middle-aged white man who writes biographies of Winston Churchill. The minorities are there to provide the 'vital perspective,' but the Churchill man is the only one they actually pay a meaningful appearance fee.”
― Meg Mason, Sophie, Standing There