Colleen Earle

“What I read in her words is a caution. Don't let your anger - especially if it is righteous, especially if you know you're on the side of right - fool you into thinking that it makes you right. Don't be precious about your anger, warns Ahmed. Don't let your anger become a site of oppression - for you, for others- when it can be a site of struggle. Don't let your own experience of anger - feminist, justified, understandable - become totemic. Don't let your anger be a stopping point.”
― Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

“Not all friendships are meant to last, I suppose. Not ever with books”
― Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

“Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.”
― Jean Plaidy, Queen of This Realm

“History flung the accents on our names into the water when it took us across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago.”
― Kim Thúy, Ru