Anabela Matos

“Mine is a single person's lived experiences. An experience full of contradictions, imperfections and incongruities, but my lived experience nonetheless. Part of the journey, for me, is owning the inconsistencies in myself and my stories- we cannot change past perceptions, but we can certainly reflect on them, own them, and commit to growing from them. We must cultivate compassion for our past selves, trusting that we did the best we could at the time, while simultaneously striving to do better”
― Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied, It's Not About the Burqa

“Where are you going on vacation?”
“Nowhere. I’m going to read. I love reading.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“To work for a world where women are treated as people in every aspect of our lives is to work not just for women but for all people to realise their full humanity.”
― Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

“I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know.”
― Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa