Amy Gideon

“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“I believe unconditionally in the right of people with uteruses to decide what grows inside of their body and feeds on their blood and endangers their life and reroutes their future. There are no ‘good’ abortions and ‘bad’ abortions, there are only pregnant people who want them and pregnant people who don’t, pregnant people who have access and support and pregnant people who face institutional roadblocks and lies.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“We all have scars. From loving someone too deeply. From wanting to protect someone too much.”
― Kanae Hazuki