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“She would never leave a room again and not leave half of her behind.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“it is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs

“Right now it seems as though I only have two options: either I can be who Mother expects me to be, or I can be whoever I want to be.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“But I'm the inconvenient thing. I am my own biggest obstacle. I always have been.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“When I pick out pastries at the bakery, it sounds like I’m ordering someone’s execution.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can.”
― Marina Kemp, The Unwilding

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden