Societal Judgment Quotes

“Sometimes he wonders whether this very idea of loneliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely, that there is something strange and unacceptable about the life he has. Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have . . . Some of them ask him with pity, and some ask him with suspicion: the first group feels sorry for him because they assume singledom is not his decision but a state imposed upon him; and the second group feels a kind of hostility for him, because they think that his singlehood is his decision, a defiant violation of a fundamental law of adulthood.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“« Faire l'amour à une femme, c'est parfois se placer contre ses parents, contre les regards concupiscents des hommes, contre une société qui ne t'accepte pas pleinement, contre des religions qui te condamnent, contre des cultures qui te jugent, contre des clichés qui t'enferment. »”
― Élodie Font, À nos désirs - Dans l'intimité des lesbiennes