Jasmine Henderson

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
― Shirley Chisholm

“Stories don’t belong to anybody,” I say. “They’re meant to be told.”
― Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? —REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.”
― Jodi Picoult, A Spark of Light

“She cannot think of such things and still function, and she has needed to function, and she has never wanted to be one of those women who won't let their children eat raw cookie dough or wander a block down the street without a chaperone, and you have to manage the terror or you can never watch your child walk out the front door. And here they are where death is shoving its bloody snout in their faces, and she has not considered it, not really, because she has some vague idea of what she will unleash if she does, the great gaping chasm that will open up. That is what you do when you have a child, isn't it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away the possibilities.”
― Gin Phillips, Fierce Kingdom