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“When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?”
― Lily King, Euphoria

“The children do not doubt the evidence of their own bodies. They see what the adults cannot: that one is responsible to a beating heart, that the simple act of walking means moving forward in more than just the literal sense, and that even the act of reaching into the wreckage of a house to save a book or a tea kettle is a kind of beginning.”
― Kate Southwood, Falling to Earth

“Increasingly power functions by manipulating that affective dimension rather than dictating proper or normal behaviour from on high. So power is no longer fundamentally normative, like it was in its disciplinary forms, it's affective. The”
― Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect

“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“She probably longed to slap my face. They can hit us, there’s Scriptural precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be—her voice trembled—penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable. She called us girls.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it’s shameful or immodest but because I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Does he know I’m here, alive, that I’m thinking about him? I have to believe so. In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things. I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk. I never used to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation. A”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.’ I”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it. As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“What am I? A witch, for the love of God! I am a healer, not a destroyer. I have a choice as all human beings have a choice! And”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“On the basis of decades of experiments, plants are starting to be regarded as beings capable of calculation and choice, learning and memory. A few years ago, Switzerland, amid much less rational polemics, became the first country in the world to affirm the rights of plants with a special declaration. But”
― Stefano Mancuso, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

“the death of another person is perhaps the only genuine supernatural event we ever experience.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“A witch is a person who can attract and manipulate unseen forces,”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two. Until”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“If there is any sea as blue as the Caribbean I have never beheld it, and when it is seen at twilight, it is most spectacular, but then you will hear more of this later, for I have had much time to contemplate the color of this sea. On”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“Far from being about practising the dark arts, the modern witch movement is all about female empowerment. Women”
― Lisa Lister, Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.

“She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing. I”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him. When”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“The family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession. I”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Stella, hush up. Be a witch, not a bitch, for the love of heaven.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

“Divesting oneself so totally of the customary feelings of alienation and distrust that the subsequent acceptance was intellectually orgasmic.”
― Anne Rice, Taltos

“I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.”
― Anne Rice, Taltos