Elisabeth

“Still, I wasn’t ready to forgive her. I wasn’t ready to welcome her into our life. I know I was being cruel. But I was a teenager: cruelty was the only leverage I had.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“There’s very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang on to what we love. And that’s it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to control is yourself. In this moment. Which is both a relief and a huge responsibility, both at the same time.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Gentlemen, it is not my place to tell you how to do your jobs. I am a scientist, not a congressman. My task is to raise questions, carefully record observations, and vigorously analyze the data, in hopes that others might raise more questions after me. There cannot be science without the interrogation of closely held beliefs, as well as the demolition of personal aversions and biases. There cannot be science without the free and unfettered dissemination of truth. When you, as the creators of policy, seek to use your power to curtail understanding and thwart the free exchange of knowledge and ideas, it is not I who will suffer the consequences of this, but rather the whole nation, and, indeed, the entire world.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Perhaps this is my destiny—to be the one sensible thing in an often senseless world.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons