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Girl, Woman, Other QUOTES

Girl, Woman, Other QUOTES

1 " Amma misses her daughter now she’s away at university
Not the spiteful snake that slithers out of her tongue to hurt her mother, because in Yazz’s world young people are the only ones with feelings "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

2 " She likes to walk barefoot inside the house, even in winter
It’s one of the secretes of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature
Hooves, that’s what she’s got
hooves "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

3 " a white girl walking with a black girl is always seen as black-man-friendly "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

4 " I was grateful to have him to support and steer me, even though he wasn’t particularly good-looking or with a dashing personality, both attributes I’d imagined for a husband before I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream
than it was to make the dream come true "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

5 " Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

6 " I'm not a babe to them, Ams, I'm an old-school has-been who's part of the problem, they don't respect me.
Then you need to talk to them, Dom, and we should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings. "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

7 " it’s easy to forget that England is made up of many Englands "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

8 " It’s only in the past ten years it’s been reclaimed by nature, an aggressive beast consuming everything when you let it rampage unhindered "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

9 " People have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror
The borders between public and private are dissolving "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

10 " Winsome wished he hadn't awakened a longing in her that he wouldn't satisfy. He'd given her a taste of himself and then withdrawn it. She didn't hate him for it, she wanted him more because of it. "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

11 " She and Amma have only polished off two bottles of red and the rest of the coke, which pleasantly counteracted the inebriation game effect of the drink
Best of both worlds, drink as much as you like and remain coherent enough for a good chinwag "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

12 " Anima
is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

13 " Amma wanted her daughter to be free, feminist and powerful
Later she took her on personal development courses for children to give her the confidence and articulacy to flourish in any setting
Big mistake
Mum, Yazz said at fourteen when she was pitching to go to Reading Music Festival with her friends, it would be to the detriment of my juvenile development if you curtailed my activities at this critical stage in my journey towards becoming the independent-minded and fully self-expressed adult you expect me to be, I mean, do you really want me rebelling against your old-fashioned rules by running away from the safety of my home to live on the streets and having to resort to prostitution to survive and thereafter drug addiction, crime, anorexia and abusive relationships with exploitative bastards twice my age before my early demise in a crack house?
Amma fretted the whole weekend her little girl way away "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

14 " Let us wonder, Carole, at the genius of hyperbolic geometry, where the sum of the angles adds up to tales than 180 degrees
Let us wonder at how the ancient Egyptians worked out how to measure an irregularly-shaped field
Let us wonder how X was just a rare letter until algebra came along and made it something special that can be unraveled to reveal its inner value
You see, maths is a process of discovery, Carole, it is like the exploration of space, the planets were always there, it just took us a long time to find them "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

15 " Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs
perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation
whereupon she walked right back out again

in turn a casting director told Dominique she was wasting his time when she turned up for a Victorian drama when there weren’t any black people in Britain then
she said there were, called him ignorant before also leaving the room
and in her case, slamming the door "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

16 " He pointed out that the mattress in the master boudoir was handspring with each spring wrapped in cashmere
It’s like sleeping on air, Miss Williams, he said as he showed her the suite’s ‘menu of pillows’ on a silver-embossed card
As if she was the kind of woman who’d amputate her aspirations to become one of his decorative appendages
She had to politely extricate herself from his intentions without jeopardizing the business "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

17 " The Barbies with their stick legs and rocket breasts were another problem Megan had to endure. She was supposed to spend hours dressing up or playing house with them, including the darker ones she was supposed to find more relatable. In a fit she'd once tried to commit Barbicide, defaced them with colored marker pens, chopped off hair, extracted eyes with scissors and de-limbed a few... The Barbie invasion proliferated on birthdays and at Christmas, relatives talked about incredible collection, as if she'd actually chosen to have them in her life. "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

18 " be a person with knowledge not just opinions "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

19 " gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other

20 " ... ageing is nothing to be ashamed of

especially when the entire human race is in it together "

― Bernardine Evaristo , Girl, Woman, Other