Angela

“But tonight I learned that there were other women before me. So very, very many of them. They were here all along: spotting comets, naming stars, pointing telescopes at the sky alongside their fathers and brothers and sons. And still the men they worked with scorned them. Scoffed at them. Gave the credit and glory to the men who stole their work- or borrowed it or expanded it. Rarely cited it directly. And then those men did their best to forget where the work came from. Women's ideas are treated as though they sprung from nowhere, to be claimed by the first man who came along.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Pay me the compliment of trusting that I mean what I say.”
― Cat Sebastian, It Takes Two to Tumble

“This is impossible and one feature of lesbian oppression consists precisely of making women out of reach for us since women belong to men.”
― Monique Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman

“That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been making gay jokes in front of your gay kid for the last 17 years.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda