Elsie How

“Fearless” is often used to describe comics unafraid of hurting people, when it should apply to the comedians afraid of being hurt by people and persisting anyway.”
― Jesse David Fox, Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work

“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”
― Bruce D. Perry

“Willful misreading is a violence. To warp the history of a place to serve one vision of the past—and therefore, preserve a specific vision of the present and future—is an obscenity, and yet we live in obscenities like this every day.”
― Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now