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I believe what the generals need now Are the abuelita brigades armed with Chanclas to shame, swat, and spank Los meros machos del mundo. Amen.
“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
― The Decameron
― The Decameron
“I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted myself to. Perhaps it is time.”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“I have never understood, and still do not understand the notion that a woman must first endure a victimhood of some sort—abandonment, abuse, oppression of the patriarchy—to be monstrous. Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason. But why would she do it? Why, why, why?”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“But I'm not interested in your romances. And specifics about my affairs of the heart or the bedroom are -respectfully- none of your fucking business.”
― Vagabond
― Vagabond
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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