Brandy

“I want you to feel what is at stake in a world of book bans and alternative facts, to grasp the value of listening to those who are pushed to the edges and the communities we build there.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

“Common law had it that conjugal rights were forever, at any time, at any place, and by any means necessary. Marital rape, then, was an impossibility, an unresolvable paradox. How can you rape someone when the law says she is permanently, and irrevocably, at your beck and call, subject to your every whim, however violent and damaging?”
― Sarah Weinman, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

“Blaming yourself feels better than admitting you ain’t got no control.”
― Erin Crosby Eckstine, Junie

“And remember, above all, the first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always carry a book.”
― Patty Krawec, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds