The Change

by Kirsten Miller

Dead women’s bodies fertilized a whole industry. Books, movies, shows, podcasts.

“Nobody owns the ocean.”

At some point in the future, when our own species is more evolved, we’ll look back and be very ashamed of what we’ve done to the whales.”

“Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn’t good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do.”

You two are still depending on a system that you both know doesn’t work.

those who

wanted girls to be docile and disciplined were often the same people who took advantage of them.

nature wasn’t prone to mistakes. Her grandparents had looked to the Bible for God’s word, never realizing it was written on the world all around them.

Where she saw promise and possibility, he saw proof of a broken mind.

“God may have dictated the Bible, but it was put down on paper by men. And over the years, men have changed things that don’t make them look good.

“Well, they say God made man before woman. That part is true. But when he was done making Adam, he figured he could do a lot better, so he gave it another go. The second creation was superior to the first in every way but strength. She wasn’t much of a match for all the lions and bears. So God decided to keep them both.”

“Eve’s the hero of this story. And that’s the first thing the snake told her. ‘You are the best of God’s creations,’ he said. ‘First came the animals, then Adam, then you. God kept getting better as he went along. He would have made you stronger, too. But he ran out of material. So you’re just gonna have to stay on your toes.’”

“The most dangerous beast in Eden was Adam.”

Adam was fine. But there was something wrong with him—the thing that had convinced God to try again.

He’d just come off making the animals when he went to work on Adam, and he forgot to change one little thing. Like the animals, Adam was driven by bodily needs. When Adam wanted to rut, all the reason God gave him went right out the window. With animals, sex is natural. What made Adam so dangerous was his desire to dominate.”

“When Eve ate the apple, she realized there was a whole world beyond Eden. The snake told her she could spend her life in a garden taking care of some man’s insatiable needs—or she could see what else was out there. So she put on some clothes and went out to explore.

They’ll all praise you for your bravery, but they’ll never invite you into their homes again.