Michelle Mina

“To study history is to study humanity. And to try to foretell the future without studying history is like trying to learn to read without bothering to learn the alphabet.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Men,

want to fix you,
save you,
or fuck you.

I can’t be fixed
and I don’t care to be saved.”
― Jeanann Verlee

“He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver