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“When our personal value is dependent on the lesser value of other bodies, radical self-love is unachievable.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Real radicalism implores us to tell the whole ugly truth, even when it is inconvenient. To own the hurt and the pain. To own our shit, too. To think about it systemically and collectively, but never to diminish the import of the trauma.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“Equally damaging is our insistence that all bodies should be healthy. Health is not a state we owe the world. We are not less valuable, worthy, or lovable because we are not healthy. Lastly, there is no standard of health that is achievable for all bodies.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“In some places we value naturalness so highly that we become willing to hurt and kill animals to protect it. When non-native animals are killed simply because they "don't belong" and not because they are causing some sort of measurable harm, we have decided that erasing the taint of the human is more important than the lives of animals who, lest we forget, have no conception that they are in the "wrong" place. This does not feel like humility in action.

...I feel confident in saying that when we kill animals for no reason other than the fact that their presence isn't natural in that place, we are neither respecting the autonomy of loving things, nor respecting humility and restraint.”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World