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

“Perhaps feminist is a bit like walking purposefully through a crowd.”
― 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

“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