Nan

“she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts—it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved—but the fat woman’s act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“J'avais fini par faire de ma mortelle envie un rempart contre elle-même : la perpétuelle possibilité du suicide m'aidait à supporter moins impatiemment l'existence, tout comme la présence à portée de la main d'une potion sédative calme un homme atteint d'insomme.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien

“I have been forced to live with something awful, and I will never be grateful for the personal development I have had to endure to survive it. Acknowledging”
― 404 Ink, Nasty Women

“I am aware, as I sort herbs or learn about mushrooms, or read a friend’s tarot, that perhaps what I am primarily interested in is power. Power against the constant, disempowering experience of being a woman.”
― 404 Ink, Nasty Women