Monica

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah