Amy Walker

“Amma closes the window, walks back, re-spreads herself languorously over the sofa, convince me why feminism getting a new lease of life isn’t a good thing, Dominique? isn’t it just what the doctor ordered? actually it’s the commodification of it that bugs me, Amma, once upon a time feminists were so vilified by the media it turned generations of women away from their own liberation because nobody wanted to be denounced as one, now they’re in a lovefest with it, have you seen all these glamorous photoshoots of stunning young feministas with their funky clothes and big attitude – until it’s no longer on trend feminism needs tectonic plates to shift, not a trendy make-over”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Emmeline Pankhurst didn’t chain herself to those railings so we could spend our lives as a tiny cog in someone else’s wheel. Be your own boss. Create something. Employ people. Be fearless. Do something you really love. Make it all worthwhile. So, she had done it.”
― Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

“It occurred to him, not for the first time, that prophetic dreams were not much use if their meaning emerged only in hindsight.”
― Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

“In this simple”
― Rosalind Miles, The Women’s History of the World: A Powerful Non-Fiction Narrative of Struggles and Triumphs