The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something...

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Anyone that gave them trouble for anything would find a drag queen's spiked heel up their urethra.

If a narrative isn't working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn't done to you; the narrative is something that you choose. Once we can dig deep and find a different narrative,...

Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own...

There comes a time in every young woman's life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.

If you are locked in a room in your dream, you just tell yourself there's a key in your pocket. Then you reach in your pocket for the key and get yourself out. It's your dream. You get to write the...

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent on anyone, especially a man, because the minute you are dependent, you could be abused.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business.

Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.

He forgot Gavriel and Lorcan as he bolted for her—the gold and red and blue flames utterly hers, this heir of fire. Spying him at last, she smiled faintly. A queen's smile.

Hers was not a story of darkness. This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself, this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.

Here's a lesson for you Weapons Master, she said, stalking past him. Give me real men to fight. Then maybe I'll bother trying.

When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven;...

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of...

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

{In 16th century European society} Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.