Judith Borghouts

“It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“Oh, why did he slap her when she’s a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn’t have a husband to speak for her.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“And although the world was just the same as it had always been as I travelled home on the Tube that evening, my view of it had been changed forever.”
― Billy Bragg, The Progressive Patriot

“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”
― Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men