Jacki

“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Then I brace my feet against the casements and
rescue myself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Your beauty is not a tax you are required to pay to take up space in this world.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Still she did not blench: maiden of Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly. The outstretched neck she clove asunder, and the hewn head fell like a stone. Backward she sprang as the huge head crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. A light fell about her, and her hair shone in the sunrise.”
― JRR Tolkien