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“The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Faith, in the having mode, is a crutch for those who want to be certain, those who want an answer to life without daring to search for it themselves.”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

“Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness”
― Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be?

“...condemning Nyasha to whoredom, making her a victim of her femaleness, just as I had felt victimised at home in the days when Nhamo went to school and I grew my maize. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them. Even heroes like Babamukuru did it. And that was the problem. You had to admit Nyasha had no tact. You had to admit she was altogether too volatile and strong-willed. You couldn't ignore the fact that she had no respect for Babamukuru when she ought to have had lots of it. But what I didn't like was the way that all conflicts came back to the question of femaleness. Femaleness as opposed and inferior to maleness.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“We are so uncomfortable with confronting the fact that some men are extreme misogynists and therefore unappealing to women as sexual partners that our public discourse engages at face value with the ridiculous notion that a woman choosing not to have sex with a man puts him in a state of victimhood that is legitimate enough to be granted its own title.”
― Laura Bates, The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

“this epidemic of misogynistic, weaponised digital violence continues to be underestimated and dismissed. As history has repeatedly shown us, we can’t fight an epidemic without first acknowledging that it exists.”
― Laura Bates, The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

“Men and women can walk down exactly the same street and have vastly different experiences. The same is true of the online world.”
― Laura Bates, The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny