Jimena

“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes