They mistook the construction site for a ruin.

That was their whole mistake, and it was fatal.

And I want to say something to any woman who has ever been told that her quietness is weakness, because I was told it my whole life, and I believed it for far too much of it, and it is a lie so useful to the people who tell it that they will never stop.

You will be told, if you do not fight loudly, that you have given up.

You will be told that a woman who does not make a scene has no self-respect, that silence is submission, that if you truly objected you would rage.

And it is worth understanding who benefits from teaching you that, because it is always, always the person who would find your rage convenient.