Alinor Schott

“What, you egg?”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men—cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? I was going to say that perhaps women are born with a cooking gene until I remembered that the majority of famous cooks in the world—who are given the fancy title of “chef”—are men.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“If genocide is ultimately an act of erasure, denial is its final, comprehensive deed.”
― Serj Tankian, Down with the System: A Memoir

“Trees into sweaters! Brute matter uplifted to serve human purposes! What could be more dialectical?”
― Francis Spufford, Red Plenty