Edna Keng'ara

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“And so what if my job isn't exactly, what-do-you-call-it, white collar? It's fucking no collar. No collar, no fucking shirt. Not even pants. And so what? At least it isn't in Little Rock. Hell, you might not like what I do, might not understand it. But at least I get to be outside. At least I get to walk, to choose my streets, to take it all in - smell the goddamn flowers, which is more than I can say for most folks around here.”
― Ivy Pochoda, These Women

“There's an answer for everything. It's usually simple. It's people who complicate things.”
― Ivy Pochoda, These Women

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men