Gabs

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace