“We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let’s inhale it, let’s digest it, let’s process it into fuel.” ActionPainPowerFeminism Book:Women Talking Source: Women Talking
“Our freedom and safety are the ultimate goals, and it is men who prevent us from achieving those goals. But not all men,... Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of the men's hearts and minds.” Feminism Book:Women Talking Source: Women Talking
“It is possible, she says, the men in prison are not guilty of the attacks. But are they guilty of not stopping the attacks? Are they guilty of knowing about the attacks and doing nothing?...How should we know what they're guilty of or not?...But we do know,... We do know that the conditions of Molotschna have been created by man, that these attacks have been made possible, even the conception of these acts, the planning of these attacks, the rationale for these attacks within the minds of the men, because of the circumstances of Molotschna. And those circumstances have been created and ordained by the men,...” Feminism Book:Women Talking Source: Women Talking
“¿Digo bien si digo que en este momento las mujeres estamos preguntándonos cuál es nuestra prioridad y qué está bien, si proteger a nuestras hijas o entrar en el Reino de los Cielos?” ReligionFeminismPatriarcado Book:Women Talking Source: Women Talking
“Tal y como yo lo veo, lo que hemos decidido las mujeres es que queremos, y creemos merecer, tres cosas. ¿Cuáles?, pregunta Greta. Mariche dice: Queremos que nuestros hijos estén seguros. Ha empezado a llorar en silencio y está costándole hablar, pero continúa. Queremos ser fieles a nuestra fe. Queremos pensar.” ReligionFeminismWomen S RightsMachismoPatriarcadoVictim Shame Author:Miriam Toews
