Swarnika Sankhla

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager? No one had sung? No one had told her how much she would lose until the time for grieving was long over.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“These scams enraged them, and from the crucible of their fury, they themselves emerged pure. They wanted corruption removed from the root, so that honest people could prosper for a change, as if they had no role to play in the shape of their lives, in the fate of their cities and their country, as if these stories of graft unfolded in black vacuum.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

“I am done being careful. I am done being quiet. Let them see me angry. Let them hear me wail at the top of my lungs.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun