“Whichever decision that you take, it would have been set that way in any case. We could never run from our destiny.”
“No matter who you are, if in your mind you are born a girl, you will grow to be a women through experience. It is not a biological process, it is not losing your virgnity, it is not giving birth or raising children, nor is it a thing that can be calculated or defined: it is a staggeringly ineffable, gorgeous uphill battle from chaos towards a chosen selfhood of contentment, self-belief, self-love, and empowerment.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“We see those years of negative treatment by men, by institutions, by the patriarchy, by society at large. We see it. We challenge it, we stand up to it, and we change it.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“Basia, men are beasts.”
Source: The Art of Finding Witness
“Of course I never mention it to them any more, - I am too wise, - but I keep watch of it all the same.
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”
Source: "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again.
She is the protagonist of a Love Story.”
Source: To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
“In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.”
Source: Miss Behave
“My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.”
“Também lembrei de Buddy Williard dizendo com uma voz sinistra e sabichona que depois que tivéssemos filhos eu me sentiria diferente e não mais teria vontade de escrever poemas. E me ocorreu que talvez fosse verdade aquela história de que casar e ter filhos era como passar por uma lavagem cerebral, e que depois eu que você ficava inerte feito um escravo num pequeno estado totalitário.”
Source: the bell jar
“Tell me, why did Lotto write a war play? Because works about war always trump works about emotions, even if the smaller, more domestic plays are better written, smarter, more interesting. The war stories are the ones that gets the prizes. But your husband's voice is strongest when he speaks most quietly and clearly.”
Source: Fates and Furies