Jessi

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“A stupid man is every woman’s downfall.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop