Jennifer

“Why, in all of these stories about someone who wants to be something or someone else, was it always the individual who needed to change, and never the world?”
― Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

“The "generation gap" is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memory of the community, nor ask the all important question, "Why?" This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Maybe an artist is simply one who does an artist’s work, over and over. A process, not a paragon.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Every generation had women stand up and ask to be counted—and every generation of brilliant, insightful, educated men has raised a hand and wiped those women’s names from the greater historical record.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics