Olivia

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

“I'm very glad my mother left my father, of course, but as I got older it did get harder to valorize that flight. This cover-seeking - desperate, adrenalized - had constituted her whole life as far as I could see. In avoidance of any reflection, thought. In which case her leaving him was a result of the same impulse that had her hook up with him in the first place. Not to think, not to connect: marry an insane bully. Simper at him. Not to be killed: get away from him. And her children? Her issue? How did they fit into her scheme? As sandbags? Decoys?”
― Gwendoline Riley, First Love

“Women do not seek abortion because they are ignorant that the fetus is a potential child - they seek abortion precisely because they know it.”
― Ann Furedi, The Moral Case for Abortion

“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World