Sydney McDowell

“You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbour the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Because it's easy to ignore a woman." Juniper's lips twist in a feral smile. "But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“witchcraft isn’t one thing but many things, all the ways and words women have found to wreak their wills on the world.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“It's a risk just to be a woman, in my experience. No matter how healthy or hardworking she is.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches