For every step that you march in defense of others, you should dance in celebration of this beautiful life
- Sophia Bush

heroics

When you make your living writing beautiful works of art or words that fight to extinguish genocide in our world, you're a hero.

When you speak to others about why feminism, or advocacy, and storytelling is important to our society as a whole, you're a hero.

Adichie, Power. Important names. When they speak, I listen.

Chimamanda Adichie continues to be a deeply influential and inspirational figure in my life

Highlights: 
"A man who would be intimidated by me is not a man I would be interested in."

"The problem with gender is it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are."

"Culture does not make people; people make culture."

"A feminist is a man or a woman who says 'Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it and we must do better."