You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.

Be inconvenient. Raise your hand despite their groans. Voice you opinions. Enter debates. Classrooms are not only boys’ domains.

Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.

I will take [my daughter] to the library, and introduce her to every librarian because they are where Athena lives now.

Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.