I was stained by failure.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.