Julia

“She should have been feeding Maud scraps of herself, seducing her with sweet mouthfuls of truth into believing that they were growing close - she should have done the dance of intimacy, keeping herself in the lead and safe inches of space between them.”
― Freya Marske, A Restless Truth

“I can’t believe we were almost killed by a hedge.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“My name is Morgan,” I said. “And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name