Emma Eff

“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we’ve lived.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

“At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

“My Hebrew teachers said I should like Esther for saving the Jews, but I was more interested in the bit before that, where she gets her king by winning a beauty contest. I imagined her as pretty as Sleeping Beauty, but a brunette. With green eyes. All right, I imagined her as a gorgeous, grown-up version of myself. And she was Jewish, and she did become a queen. (At Hebrew school, we skated over the fact that she married a man who wasn’t Jewish. Everything was forgivable in a heroine who saved the Jews.) Later,”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much

“I am a bad feminist because I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Consider me already knocked off. When”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays