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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories