Nigeria was my door to science fiction. The opening of this door restored my faith in science after science failed me. And once I was back as a proud disciple, I was free to embrace my own cyborgity. Something just had to break first. “I move about the world in my own way.” —Nnedi Okorafor
I love "I move about the world in my own way". Reminds me a lot of the Donna Strickland response to why she was never made full professor.
But she was still just an associate professor when she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. It wasn’t the university’s fault that she hadn’t been made a full professor, she has said: she simply never applied. “I'm just a lazy person. I do what I want to do and that wasn't worth doing.”
(https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/donna-strickland)
