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“How are we to become people who bring into public life the values we treasure in our interpersonal relationships?”
― Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

“To believe that alternatives are possible, we must envision them.”
― Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

“I thought I was writing a story about rage. I wasn’t. There is certainly rage in this novel, but it is about more than that. In its heart, this is a story about memory, and trauma. It’s about the damage we do to ourselves and our community when we refuse to talk about the past. It’s about the memories that we don’t understand, and can’t put into context, until we learn more about the world. And I thought I was writing about a bunch of fire-breathing, powerful women. And while those women certainly are in this book, it isn’t about them. It’s about a world upended by trauma and shamed into silence. And that silence grows, and becomes toxic, and infects every aspect of life. Perhaps this sounds familiar to you now—times being what they are.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“she has found that the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods