Colleen

“Power is not a thing that can be given.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom

“Survival is important,” said Kira, “but not if you lose yourself in the process. Surviving just to survive is . . . empty. That’s not a life, it’s a feedback loop.”
― Dan Wells, Ruins

“Much of women’s history leans on a trope of ‘exceptional’ women: ‘girlbosses’ who achieved incredible things against the impossibly patriarchal odds of their day. Such women did, of course, exist, and we should celebrate them. But we could easily describe all women in the past in this way. All of the women in The Waiting Game existed close to the centre of power and acted in ways that influenced the broader historical narrative. All occasionally stepped outside the boundaries that society allegedly dictated for their sex.”
― Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

“His ridiculous Victorian ideas reminded me that my sense of worthlessness was a reasonable response to a society bent on limiting the sphere of women.”
― Stephanie Lehmann, Astor Place Vintage