Ashley Epp > Ashley's Quotes

“Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down.”
― Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

“That’s not your choice. It’s already been decided for you. You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“And what is that nightmare, Craig?
Life.
Life is a nightmare.
Yes.”
― Ned Vizzini

“If things don't work out, you can always come home," he said. "I'll be here for you. You know that, don't you?
"I know." I knew that in his way, he would be. I also knew I'd never be coming back.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Beyonce 1.0 had arrived, and the way she held the camera's gaze made us feel as if hers was a party we were all invited to.”
― Veronica Chambers, Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.”
― Rafe Esquith

“A woman can be both strong and emotional.”
― Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Then it hits me. Hard. I'm like a nail struck by a hammer - brittle, quivering, sinking deeper into something from which there is no escape.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Here's the thing about details - they can also be a distraction. Add too many and it obscures the brutal truth about a situation. They become the gaudy necklace that hides the tracheotomy scar”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass