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“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance…

— Geraldine Brooks

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

“We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.”

— Courtney E. Martin

“Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question.”

— Thabo Mbeki

“She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.”

— Rebecca Shannonhouse

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a…

— Jane Austen

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich…

— Trudi Canavan