Miriam

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
― Audre Lorde

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston