For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
– N.K. Jemisin
What She Said, April 30: Edna St. Vincent Millay
What should I be but just what I am?
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
What She Said, April 29: Jane Hirshfield
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
– Jane Hirshfield
What She Said, April 28: Joy Harjo
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
– Joy Harjo
What She Said, April 27: Beryl Markham
…if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.
– Beryl Markham
What She Said, April 26: Maxine Hong Kingston
In a time of destruction, create something.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
What She Said, April 25: Margaret Atwood
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
– Margaret Atwood
What She Said, April 24: Lady Gaga
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.
-Lady Gaga
What She Said, April 23: Nora Ephron
“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.”
-Nora Ephron
What She Said, April 22: Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
-Virginia Woolf