Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

You deserve to take up space.