Amanda

“Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it’s healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us?”
― Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

“There's a type of person who thinks he's getting away with something by not believing in anything. But not believing in anything IS believing in something. It's active, not passive. To believe in nothing is to change nothing. It means you're endorsing the present, and the present is a horror[...] Irreverence is the ultimate luxury item.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“The real problem, said Mary, was not women, but how men wanted women to be.”
― Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley