Let Us Dream

by Alyssa Cole

But he also fancied her intelligence, and her toughness, and how she was the first person he’d butted heads with who’d butted right back, and with a smile.

When you’re trying to survive, sometimes you’re gonna encounter liars. Politicians are the worst of them. But there are good ones too. You take your chances there like anywhere else in life because the only other option is giving up. That

“We do what we have to in a world that tells us we don’t deserve even a bit of power.

“Yes, and it is a friend’s job to offer guidance when your head is stuck in your behind,”

but I have the power to make your life very uncomfortable.” She leaned toward him. “Every man has that power, snowflake. Why do you think I’m even here?”

If I have to choose between another coat and a sister in need, you best not think you’re gonna see me in a new coat come Sunday service.”

Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.

America had been pulling one over on a good number of its citizens for all these years, and it couldn’t do it forever.

Women winning the vote showed that the Land of the Free had been telling lies since its inception, just as Emancipation had shone light onto truths that many would have preferred stayed hidden. Maybe one day, all the pointless lies would be done with, and everyone could get to that Dream folks liked to talk about so much.