Carmen > Carmen's Quotes

“KAREN: Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I suppose it is in our nature,” she said finally. “When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” “If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known.” *”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“It’s time that women participate in the management of this pathetic world on terms equal to men. Often women in power behave like hard men because it’s been the only way they could compete and command, but when we reach a critical number of women in positions of power and leadership we will tip the balance toward a more just and egalitarian civilization. More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: “In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women.”
― Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

“We want an inclusive and egalitarian civilization free of gender, race, class, and age discrimination, and any other classification that separates us. We want the kind of world where peace, empathy, decency, truth, and compassion prevail. Above all, we want a joyful world. That is what we, the good witches, want. It’s not a fantasy, it’s a project. Together we can achieve it. When the coronavirus crisis is over we will crawl from our lairs and cautiously enter a new normal, and the first thing we will do is hug one another in the streets. How we have missed touching people! We will cherish each encounter and tend kindly to the matters of the heart.”
― Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don’t wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“And, in fact, the truth about the black man, as a historical entity and as a human being, has been hidden from him, deliberately and cruelly; the power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Because her husband paid for their lives, paid for the privilege she had of staying home each and every day and devoting herself completely to motherhood and nothing else, she had felt, ever since she stepped down from her position at the gallery, that she was in no place to demand anything.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Smashing pumpkins and throwing muses was all very entertaining, but of no real benefit when things took off, literally.”
― India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches

“teenager who doesn’t shower enough and chews on his sweatshirt sleeves.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“where Endre, a biomedical researcher, worked at finding applications for hyaluronic acid, a collagen-like lubricant that occurs naturally in the eyes of cows and the combs of roosters and was proving useful in combating such ailments in humans as burns, arthritis, and cataracts.”
― Shawn Levy, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont