“Many men are angry at women, but more profoundly, women are the targets for displaced male rage at the failure of patriarchy to make good on its promise of fulfillment, especially endless sexual fulfillment.”
Source: The Will to Change, Men, Masculinity, and Love
“The other faction, far less visible or influential, arose in the marginalized communities, among women - Black, brown, queer, trans, poor, disabled - whom the state has never protected. These abolition feminists have learned from experience that prisons do not end violence, but rather perpetrate and perpetuate it, while destroying individual lives, families, and communities. Like a lot of their compatriots in the carceral feminist movement, many are themselves survivors of sexual harm. But, unlike the other contingent, their politics join the struggle against sexual and gender violence with that against the "white supremacist prison nation," to use the term coined by abolitionist scholar Beth E. Richie.”
Source: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence
“The highest cards have men on them.” María can see that. There are men holding clubs. Men holding swords. Men holding coins. Men holding cups. “Where are the women?” she asks, and Ysabel only laughs, as if it were a joke.”
Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Ahora yo te pregunto: ¿con qué derecho hacías planes de tener hijos conmigo si no eres tú quien los iba a llevar en el útero durante nueve meses o quedarse en casa para cuidarlos? Quien vive sin un plan no soy yo, sino tú”
Source: Lo que sabe la señorita Kim
“Two kinds of women have leave to wander this world alone, nuns and widows. And I am not close enough with god to be a nun.”
“It is very difficult for me to decide whether I am a nightmare in a relationship or just simply someone who won't settle for anything other than joy. This is the eyes of society labels me selfish or wild or untameable. Who in their right mind would want to be tamed anyway? No one should want to be tamed!”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Mothers aren't just women with children in my opinion. They come in many forms, they are grown and evolve from nature and nurture combined.”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Living can be passive. Witnessing is not passive.”
Source: In the Streets of Tehran: An eyewitness account from Iran
“A single mother juggling two jobs, so she could provide for her kids, is far more brave and empowering than a billion empty, self-indulgent celebs.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“You must be careful with... with Santangel."
It seemed everyone wanted to want her today. "Because he made a deal with the devil?"
Valentina winced. She shook her head. "Because he is a man, Luzia”
Source: The Familiar