“The problem was the companies that sold shitty sanitary pads. Otherwise reasonable adults who believed tampons stole a girl's virginity. Doctors who didn't bother to solve common problems. Birth control that could kill you. Boys who were told that they couldn't control themselves. A society that couldn't handle the fact that roughly half of all humans will menstruate.”
Source: The Change
“Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water.
It’s on the desk of every female animator and in the pen of every woman doodling a monster in the margins of her notebook. It’s always been there. It’s just been hidden, purposely obfuscated.
Now, it’s in every copy of this book, i your hands or on your ears.”
Source: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
“Mehmet hüzne bayılıyor. Benim gözlerimde arayıp da bulamadığı hüznü kendi gözlerinde çoğalttıkça çoğaltıyor.”
Source: Kadının Adı Yok
“Il suo gusto per i libri era stato precoce. Da bambino, a volte un paggio lo trovava, a mezzanotte, ancora intento a leggere. [...] Per dirla in breve, Orlando era un nobile malato d'amore per la letteratura.”
Source: Orlando
“The mythicised inhumanity of this attack remains unforgettable not only because it was performed by one mother on another mother – one dark and distorted, the other fair and privileged – but because it encoded the relationship between patriarchal masculinity, drugs, and the resulting – and accelerating – cultural denigration of the feminine and maternal.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.”
Source: What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
“The feminine continues to be a form of currency, to be traded for money or gender status: undeserving of emotional investment in itself.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“During the Psychedelic Revolution, eroticised violence towards
the feminine not only became normalised, but was also presented
as the ideal.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“In the 21st century, the pornographic vogue of ‘ass to mouth’, in which the feminine, after being sodomised by the masculine, is expected to orally clean the penis, is an eroticised example of the same impulse. Women, who for centuries have metaphorically eaten shit, are now expected to literally do so, like swine.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“Oyila and her parents first stopped at a beach. Over there, Oyila bought a long and comfortable t-shirt. She was sure her grandmother would like the t-shirt since it smelt salty and fresh”
Source: The Postwoman and Other Stories