Angela

“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness... Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller, their capacity for real damage is less alarming.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I knew that it would be called the United States. But I refused to speak that name. there was nothing united about a nation that said all men were created equal, but that kept my people in chains”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

“She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter