Amy Armstrong

“Seventy-eight percent of stalking victims are women.”
― Beverly Engel, The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- and Start Standing Up for Yourself

“Women’s voices are contested in a way that men’s never are. If we speak too softly, we are treated as gentle mice; if we raise our voices to be heard, we are shrill.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I have consumed more punch. I have forgotten that I am a twenty-five-year-old woman. The heart Rob Valencia holds in his hand is a seventeen-year-old heart, warped and badly drawn with purple ink. It is Samantha Heather Mackey’s seventeen-year-old idea of her heart. And it has Rob Valencia’s name drawn inside in jagged, bleedy letters.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“When everything is broken, everything is also up for grabs. That’s the gift of winter: it’s irresistible. Change will happen in its wake, whether we like it or not. We can come out of it wearing a different coat.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times