Laurie Wright

“I’m not cute at all. I’m a very cranky person.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent

“Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.”
― Nujood Ali, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced: A Memoir

“Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they can be controlled. Also, it is a source of embarrassment to the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia that in the 1980s, nomadic hunters are still roaming the jungles. This doesn't help the national image of a modern, developing country.”
― Eric Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn't drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there's no love there.
Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop