Veronica

“But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

“Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.”
― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

“Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions