City of Women

It’s easy to watch from a comfortable distance as people make choices with life-or-death consequences.

If you’ve learned anything—it should be how easy it is for people—for people to betray one another.

“someday you will open up your eyes and wonder what has become of your life. And the only answer will be that you have squandered it, trying to prove something to these men. These higher authorities of yours. Trying to elicit from them some minuscule measure of respect or equality, which you will never receive. Not ever.”