Anna

“if the past is filled with uncertainty and violent change, if the land you’re standing on was once under the sea, you can be sure of anything. How can you rely on tradition or order or identity when the whole world is mutable, when dynasties crumble and all your deepest beliefs might be based on fiction?”
― Helena Kelly, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

“But sometimes two people have a deep connection. It makes romance seem trivial. It isn’t about anything carnal. It’s about souls. About the deepest part of who you are as a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“And we are the ones who made it about race in the first place—our ancestors did this by literally making race as a category, as a system to ensure hierarchies of economic, political, and social control. That we benefit from, every day. We made race, and so we need to keep making it about race.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

“The Influence of the Female Character upon Society, published in 1801, complains about female fashions.”
― Helena Kelly, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical