I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
Octavia ButlerNothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you canโt do with an ugly one? Nothing. Itโs just a matter of preference.
Octavia ButlerWe're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
Octavia Butler