Steffany Malarik

“Sandy shook her head. “Boys,” she said, and with that single word excused me from all responsibility.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“In an important study done in 1979, researchers demonstrated that any form of therapy could be effective if certain criteria were met: that both the therapist and the patient were acting in good faith; that the client believed that the therapist understood the technique; and that the client liked and respected the therapist; and that the therapist had an ability to form understanding relationships. The experimenters chose English professors with this quality of human understanding and found that, on average, the English professors were able to help their patients as much as the professional therapists.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. As”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name