Quote by Jean Rhys: “I have no passport. I don't need one. I belong nowhere.”

Rhys articulates a feeling of profound rootlessness and alienation, suggesting she lacks a defined homeland or belonging. This reflects her experience as a white Creole woman living between the Caribbean and Europe.

Having spent much of her adult life in Europe feeling like an outsider, this sentiment captures the alienation of many colonial subjects navigating post-colonial realities and struggling with a sense of fractured identity.

Dominican-born British novelist whose 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea reimagined Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre from the perspective of the Creole first wife, Bertha Mason. Her work is considered a landmark of postcolonial and feminist literature.