Beth Chambers

“I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again”
― F. S. Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button