“Non ci hanno insegnato a dare i nomi alle cose, perché quando cominci a nominare gli eventi, le violenze, le manipolazioni, poi rischi di compiere un passo terribile e temuto: aprire gli occhi.”
Source: Ne uccide più la lingua: Smontare e contestare la discriminazione di genere che passa per le parole
“Finché non chiami le cose col loro nome non ne hai consapevolezza”
Source: Ne uccide più la lingua: Smontare e contestare la discriminazione di genere che passa per le parole
“Everything is going to be okay, my girl. I know that everything will work out for you. Be brave, be strong. Don’t listen to anyone – make your own decisions and take responsibility for them. Nothing stands in your way – only you. Remember that. Remember that always.”
Source: Under
“This is a love story, though. The kind where the lover laments all the years she lost at the altar of some false god. When regret seeps in, I try to remember the Hecatoncheires. They did not defeat the Titans as children. They lived under their power. They were of the Titans. It took years for their strength to surpass that of the old gods. But when they did? They threw mountains, a hundred at a time, one for each great hand. And what if they had been taught to hate their own strength? Maybe it would have taken a hundred years for them to grasp a mountain in hand, to understand what they could do, that they could make their own Olympus.”
Source: Girlhood
“Many women I met during my time in the academy were very good to me. But in the wake of everything I lost, I wanted to reclaim parts of me with some semblance of wholeness before everything was burned in the fire. To do that, I needed to reconnect with people who knew me before I began chasing whatever success I thought I'd find being an acclaimed Womanist scholar. I need the people who knew me when my dreams were big, and my spirit and heart were unbroken.”
Source: Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
“Talking to women and men separately about the same issue(s) made me realize something vital about modern love — we all want the same thing — to have a harmonious relationship, but our maps of getting there are starkly different. Women are discarding the old maps, and rewriting a new trajectory for their lives, while men have only begun to notice the roadblocks. We haven’t bridged the gap when it comes to heterosexual love. The only way we can fix this is if we start talking to each other, instead of at each other.”
Source: Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India
“Being financially independent has meant that women can walk out of bad marriages even when they don’t have family support, fight the pressure to get married by being able to afford to look after themselves, and finally, demand equal treatment in relationships.”
Source: Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India
“Here's to every woman who lost her virginity but kept the box it came in.”
Source: Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction
“It is in fact a delicate balance between recognising what has been, and often still is, women's distinctive contribution to community, to family life, and acknowledging its worth, resisting its devaluation, while not forever consigning women to being solely responsible for caring.”
Source: Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children?
“Clans became patrilineal, which inevitably entails male-domination. Naming children for fathers is intrinsically an act of force: it reverses natural mother right. And because it is impossible until recent years to assure paternity, patrilineality requires abuse of women.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1