Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story. A va… - Rebecca Solnit

Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met.

Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

The struggle to find a poetry in which your survival rather than your defeat is celebrated, perhaps to find your own voice to insist upon that, or to at least find a way to survive amidst an ethos that relishes your erasures and failures is work that many and perhaps most young women have to do