Irene

“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care? She browsed online forums about tutoring and music and schools, and she told him what she had discovered as though she truly felt the rest of the world should be as interested as she was in how music improved the mathematics skills of nine-year-olds. Or she would spend hours on the phone talking to her friends, about which violin teacher was good and which tutorial was a waste of money. One day, after”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“If a woman makes you feel better, get to know her; if she makes you think better, court her; if she makes you become better, marry her.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo