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Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist.


“Seventy-eight percent of stalking victims are women.”
― The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- and Start Standing Up for Yourself
― The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- and Start Standing Up for Yourself

“In Hobbes' memorable description, life outside society would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’.”
― A Little History Of Philosophy
― A Little History Of Philosophy

“I have consumed more punch. I have forgotten that I am a twenty-five-year-old woman. The heart Rob Valencia holds in his hand is a seventeen-year-old heart, warped and badly drawn with purple ink. It is Samantha Heather Mackey’s seventeen-year-old idea of her heart. And it has Rob Valencia’s name drawn inside in jagged, bleedy letters.”
― Bunny
― Bunny

“But my prayers—earthwise as they are—take me to a place that I am unable to dissect or scrutinise, a space beyond words.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“When everything is broken, everything is also up for grabs. That’s the gift of winter: it’s irresistible. Change will happen in its wake, whether we like it or not. We can come out of it wearing a different coat.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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