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“Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in.”
― Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

“We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists