Dallyce

“Individual patriarchs may indeed wriggle off the charge of woman-hating; the key to the gross inflictions laid on women in their names lies in the nature of the system itself. For a monotheism is not merely a religion—it is a relation of power. Any “One God” idea has a built-in notion of primacy and supremacy; that One God is god above all others and his adherents are supreme over all nonbelievers.”
― Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

“No, it’s about that whole little world back there. The atmosphere. The strange thing is she misses the possibility it held, the possibility of people destroying other people if they wanted to. She would rather operate in that world than in the world to which she now belongs, the world where violence is buried in layers of hierarchy and consumerism, where the potential of using it belongs almost exclusively to powerful men.”
― Fien Veldman, Hard Copy

“And that’s how I met Daniel. I don’t recall the details that brought us closer. I only know that I was the one who sought him out. And I know that Daniel took me over gradually. He regarded me with indifference and, I imagined, would never have been drawn to my person if he hadn’t found me odd and amusing. My humble approach to him was my gratitude for his favor . . . How I admired him. The more I suffered his scorn, the more superior I considered him, the more I separated him from the “others.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories

“Every office worker is just a little puppet, and when the puppet breaks or gets mangled in the machinery gears, well, that’s no problem at all for the office system. The office is really just a machine like me, its staff easily replaceable components. People tend to overestimate their own value and importance, but I understand that this is crucial for the employee’s psychological motivation. Only if they feel this way will they show up for work, day in, day out.”
― Fien Veldman, Hard Copy