I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures. - Rebecca Solnit

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

Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined,

When I read, I ceased to be myself, and this nonexistence I pursued and devoured like a drug