Victoria

“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away. The problem is not that one of these things is happening; it's that they are all happening, concurrently and constantly.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“No one gets to rake over the details of my life and determine if they think what happened to me was bad enough for me to have earned my scars, my limitations, my superpowers.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
― Frederick Douglass