Ashley Epp

“Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down.”
― Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

“Here's the thing about details - they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation. They become the gaudy necklace that hides the tracheotomy scar”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues