Pooja Holkar

“क्या तुमने कभी देखा है ख़ुद को पढ़ते हुए?
मैंने उस दृश्य को लिखा है तुम्हारे लिए…”
― Manav Kaul, Tumhare Baare Mein

“You do not have to choose
one or the other: a dream or a dreamer, the
bird or the birder. You may be a woman of
commotion and quiet. Magic and brain.

You can be a mother and a poet. A wife and
a lover. You can dance on the graves you dug
on Tuesday, pulling out the bones of yourself
you began to miss.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

“If a woman is competent, she does not seem nice enough. If a woman seems really nice, she is considered more nice than competent. Since people want to hire and promote those who are both competent and nice, this creates a huge stumbling block for women.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Sometimes I feel embarrassed telling you stuff like that because it just seems stupid. To be honest, I still look up to you a lot, I don't want you to think of me as, I don't know. Deluded.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People