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“Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“No es solamente necesidad de ternura sino también necesidad de ser tierno
para el otro: nos encerramos en una bondad mutua, nos materializamos
mutuamente; volvemos a la raíz de toda relación, allí donde necesidad y deseo se
juntan. El gesto tierno dice: pídeme lo que sea que pueda aplacar tu cuerpo, pero
tampoco olvides que te deseo un poco, ligeramente, sin querer tomar nada
enseguida.”
― Barthes Roland

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People