Emylee Gussler

“It’s a truth all people should know but they spend most of their lives working actively to forget: there is no power without the potential for harm.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“I wanted to be someone who didn’t flinch when the subject of me came up. There were so many things I could’ve told her about myself, about why I was the way I am, but I wanted Linden to like me. I chose silence.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“Once, there were men who loved to see punishment. They were elected officials, businessmen, community pillars, and every kind of man in between. They loved anything that would balkanize everyone they considered beneath them. If everyone was busy fighting for their rights, fighting each other, and the men stayed together, they would always get to be in charge of everything.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

“Sometimes, I thought my ability to joke about anything, anytime, anywhere was proof something was fundamentally wrong with me. Sometimes, I wondered if it was the only thing keeping me alive.”
― Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly