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“There is such a narrow window
For happiness in this life
And if the past is anything to go by
Everything is about to go slowly but inevitably wrong
In a non-confrontational but ultimately disappointing way”
― Hera Lindsay Bird, Hera Lindsay Bird

“Often I look at the world
And I am dumbfounded that anyone can function at all
Given the kinds of violence that
So many people have inherited from the past”
― Hera Lindsay Bird, Hera Lindsay Bird

“Even in poetry I forgive you nothing
not even your new empire of grief.”
― Hera Lindsay Bird, Hera Lindsay Bird

“Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires...”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need â€� connection.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“I knew that he would use that gun, because that is what small, scared men did: they used things more powerful than themselves to make up the difference. They hid behind weapons of mass destruction: big guns and bigger bombs.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

“There are garments in all of our wardrobes we don't wear
because we don't dare. We bought the jumpsuit for when we
were feeling brave and it turns out we never are. A friend of
mine had a party and asked us to wear that thing we already
own that we never dare wear and it was the most wonderful
night. One woman wore her bridal gown. Others wore more
cleavage than clothes. Some wore glam rock shoes and velvet
capes. Others, tight jeans and crop tops. Some, cosplay cos
times. We were all given permission to say yes to our most
daring selves. The one we leave hanging up at home. You don't
have to be queer to leave the best part of yourself in the closet.
Most of us are doing it all the time,”
― Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

“The further away you are from being a white man, the less you are seen by society as being a neutral ‘personâ€�. That’s pretty devastating, isn’t it?”
― Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

“start to assess your life step by step and work out who you are and how much more dangerous you could be if you got fearless and ferocious.”
― Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

“Women are always waiting on men- let it be the other way around for a change.”
― Elizabeth Lim, So This is Love

“Crazy
are women labeled
crazy when you feel
like their rage
outweighs the evidence
of their pain?”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.”
― Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“To see her is a pictureâ€�
To hear her is a tune�
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June�
To know her not—Affliction�
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I felt a Cleaving in my Mindâ€�
As if my Brain had split�
I tried to match it—Seam by Seam�
But could not make it fit.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you’re lagging,
I may remember him!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The Soul selects her own Society.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.

Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.

Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least.

The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
More near.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I HIDE myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too�
And angels know the rest.

I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness...”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
― mary anne radmacher