Tangled in Text

“A white woman may well be punished for an emotional outburst when interacting with men, but if she is engaged in a terse interaction with a woman of color and she becomes emotional, by which I mean either angry or distraught, with or without actual tears, the deeply embedded notions of gender and femininity are triggered and it is the white woman who is likely to be vindicated.”
― Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

“I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation.”
― Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

“Electricity and the lightbulb we invented without bullet journals. New modes of transportation like the locomotive train…were created without New Year’s resolutions. It makes me feel bad for Alexander Hamilton or Mozart–if only they would’ve known about goal setting.”
― Jefferson Bethke, To Hell with the Hustle