32 Quotes by Kiana Davenport

She tried to show them how women could do anything, and do it competently. How problems could be worked out if they ignored what people said and did what conscience required.

There are women locked in my womb forever, the memory of their birth. All I can do now is liberate the fruit of their wombs. And it may be too late.

He had thought providing for his wife was the greatest expression of devotion. Somehow it hadn't sufficed. How could I have loved her more? I never touched another woman. His sorrow was this: There was something she had needed, something she had tried to call forth from within him, that he did not possess.

The diaries also revealed a deeply sensitive, intelligent woman, one who had hoped to start a college for Hawaiian women, affording them the 'same education as men.' She had planned to open a bank for women, enabling them to handle their own financial affairs. She recognized the need for more female lawyers and physicians, the need for women's rights over their bodies, and their destinies. And lastly, though she had a fondness for men, she felt women 'basically didn't need them.

Yes. Japan will overrun us," the scholar said. "But we will turn them into Chinese. Give us five hundred years. You wait.

I keep forgetting were Pono's girls. Maybe we're not suppose to be happy.' 'Then we'll pretend to be,' Rachel said. ' We'll make it a habit, no matter what.' That's all we can do, Jess thought. Live in readiness for whatever comes.

He went back to record the meltdown of Chernobyl, and his friends say he just disappeared. This man was trying to record the disaster, but it was still the Soviet Union, and I'm sure many of them did not want him doing this.

I rushed to him and applied the Heimlich maneuver. After he recovered, he thanked me and introduced himself as Robert Chu.

We don't have enough Hawaiian voices. I go to the universities, schools, even grade schools and I beg them to write down their family stories. We're such an oral society that if we don't they will disappear.