Elf

“Le llevaba también la noticia de que ahora, muerta mi mamá, nos había llegado el turno de morir a nosotros. Una noticia que Pilar ya sabía porque al llegar nos dijo que ella, desde el amanecer, había sentido que la verdadera vejez le había caído de repente desde el mismo momento en que había visto que mi mamá no respiraba”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, La oculta

“If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acting up on spring break, getting caught topless on camera, or catching all kinds of STIs. Unsurprisingly, these types of articles and stories generally fail to mention that women are attending college at the highest rates in history, and that we’re the majority of undergraduate and master’s students. Well-educated and socially engaged women just don’t make for good headlines, it seems.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

“Mi mamá tenía una teoría, y había vivido siempre de acuerdo con ella, y es que los viejos tienen que comprar la compañía”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, La oculta

“What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women’s worth is contingent upon their ability to please men and to shape their sexual identities around what men want.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women