Beth Cothron

“And so we have to show our love in other ways. We have to climb the mountains rising up before us, food strapped to our backs, our faces covered with masks as we say, “Stay safe. Stay healthy.”
― Jennifer Haupt, ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19

“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self,”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele; or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have—I’ve never thought it made much sense to leave such a crucial thing—the ability to nourish oneself—in the hands of others.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Tell her that some people are gay, and some are not. A little child has two daddies or two mommies because some people just do. Tell her that some people go to mosque and others go to church and others go to different places of worship and still others don’t worship at all, because that is just the way it is for some people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele; or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions