Colleen Earle

“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

“Still, when I think of early friendships, I think not of people but of books. Books were my friends, and more often than not, the characters in the books were my imaginary friends, who stepped out of the pages and walked wth me to school or sat in bed with me, talking when I was meant to be asleep. What I mean is reading was my friends. And also I mean that I learned about friendship - patience, slowness, listening, care - from reading and from reading about friendship between people.”
― Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

“Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Perhaps feminist is a bit like walking purposefully through a crowd.”
― Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life