I fight with the boys—they don’t pass the ball to me and I throw them off my grandfather’s pitch. I hate chores, I hate kneeling, and I cannot stand babies. Sometimes I feel squeezed inside this body as if there is no space. That is when one of me flies out.
-- Kirabo ("The Witch: Chapter 3")

Importance: Although Kirabo is a girl, she feels uncomfortable with her gender. This quote is important because it shows how misogyny can create body dysmorphia in young girls.

Look, Kirabo. Creatures belong to their creators, not so?” Kirabo nodded. “In this shrunken image we are in right now, we are the creatures of men. And creatures worship their creator. But the original state in you gives us hope.
-- Nsuuta ("The Witch: Chapter 8")

Importance: Nsuuta lectures Kirabo on feminism when she comes to find her mother. This quote is important because it speaks to the oppression of women and the hope that Kirabo...