Scout

“raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some.   go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm.   make words your finest weapons— a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n.   - a survival plan of sorts.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“Start a conversation about the following quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Viola Voltairine, 150 Years of Gynarchy: with essays by Natalia Stroika and Pearl O'Leslie

“women
don't endure
simply because
we can;

no,

women endure
because we aren't
given any other
choice.

- they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

“Reject the binary. Realize that other genders don’t revolve around maleness. That other sexualities don’t revolve around straightness. The world doesn’t have to revolve around straight men. Masculinity is NOT the absence of femininity; it is a complementary set of characteristics that are apparent in everyone.”
― Viola Voltairine, 150 Years of Gynarchy: with essays by Natalia Stroika and Pearl O'Leslie