Kate Ward

“gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“And it comes to me that the echoes of my own life will likely die away in that way thunder does. But this life, what a shining thing—it is enough.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings