“Your lives matter. Your voices matter. Your stories matter.”

Laverne Cox

“If one man can destroy everything, why can one girl change it?”

Malala Yousafzai

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Maya Angelou

“[Unlikeable women] accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequences become stories worth reading.”

Roxane Gay