Can't Get Enough (Skyland, #3)

by Kennedy Ryan

“A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny.” —Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, philanthropist, activist

“Sometimes people want different things more than they want each other.

“We are not magic,” she says. “We are resilient. It’s not a wand. It’s work. We work harder and shine brighter to survive. Excellence for us has been a matter of necessity. In a climate where less than half a percent of venture capital funding goes to Black women, women founders still perform sixty-three percent better than all-male founding teams in the first round. With those odds, we can’t leave our success to chance and we for sure can’t depend on magic.”

This whole encounter feels like we’ve fallen into a well, and the rest of the world is above ground, completely oblivious that down here, we’re getting to know each other.

Strength is not always control. Sometimes it’s surrender.”