Preface
I will not waste your time. This is not a book of answers.
It is a record of what I have seen, what I have learned, and what I have inherited from women who refused silence.
If you are searching for comfort, you will not find it here.
If you are seeking authority to quote at dinner, you may as well close the book now.
What I offer is a series of observations: fragments, cases, irritations, and truths spoken plainly. My method is not to soothe but to expose. The patterns are old—so old that my great-grandmother wrote of them, and my aunt demolished them word by word—yet we still pretend they are new discoveries.
We live in poverty, not only of money but of knowledge, of attention, of contribution. That poverty is no accident. It is cultivated, maintained, and defended—by governments, by institutions, by men and women who find their advantage in ignorance.
I write because I will not collude in that.
I write because silence is complicity.
And I write because, if history has taught me anything, the smallest act of truth-telling unsettles empires.
Take what you will. Reject what you cannot bear. But do not say you were not warned.
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