Marcella

“In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“A comida faltava e a mata criou as ‘comunas’, frutos secos, grandes amêndoas, cujo caroço era partido à faca e se comia natural ou assado. As ‘comunas’ eram alimentícias, tinham óleo e proteínas, davam energia, por isso se chamavam ‘comunas’. E o sítio onde os frutos eram armazenados e assados recebeu o nome de ‘Casa do Partido’. O ‘comunismo’ fez engordar os homens, fê-los restabelecer dos sete dias de marchas forçadas e de emoções.”
― Pepetela, Mayombe

“The patriarchy puts women in a box. and then it puts men in their own box on top of that one. And on some level, men think that qualifies as a win. But at the end of the day, everyone's still trapped in a box. We men are all trapped here together. With our anger, our egos, and maybe a goose or two.”
― Kyle Prue, How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

“Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised