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I’m a student at an Opus Dei university and have some friends there, but none of them approve of abortion. Unless, of course, the abortion is performed in Houston and followed by a trip to the mall.
I read the instructions one last time, turned on the TV, logged on to Netflix, and found a good movie for an abortion: Mean Girls.
I’d always imagined a more rock-and-roll death, something involving an overdose at least.
I was also pissed that for the first time in my life it seemed like something was going to work out.
Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.
I put my life in the devil’s hands cause God doesn’t come through on this kinda thing.
I’d rather die in battle than live with my bare feet on the ground. I’d rather take up my AK than go back to thrifting clothes.
I had the night shift: in at 4 p.m. and out at 4 a.m., when the roosters aren’t singing, but the vultures are.
On top of that, their obsession with singing Paulina Rubio’s “Mío” gave me the chills. So what you’re saying is he’s got another woman, but he’s still yours? Please. It’s never okay to be the understudy, ever.
Because masculinity is like marzipan: fragile as hell, queen.
Disposable motherhood. Disposable women. I killed her because I loved her. I killed her because she was mine.
How can you prove misogyny in court if the murderer says he loved her? Love is misogynist.
Being a woman means living in a state of emergency.
There is no room of one’s own when men think our bodies belong to them.
No one is ever ready for the death of someone they love. But this wasn’t death. It was theft. You were stolen, violently ripped from my side.
Mexico is a monster that devours women. Mexico is a desert of pulverized bone. Mexico is a graveyard full of pink crosses. Mexico is a country that hates women.
Mothers searching for their daughters. Cities covered with pink crosses. Cities covered with posters of missing women. Deserts of bone. Lakes that swallow women whole. Dead women emerging from the rivers, from the sewers, from the sands of the desert. Corpses dumped in the garbage, in black trash bags. Food for the dogs. Disposable women. Decapitated women. Strangled women. Dismembered women. Raped women.
