Amanda

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.”
― Phillipa Gregory

“You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World