La bastarda Quotes

“If a man who is with another man is called a man-woman, what are women called who do the same?"
"There isn't a word for it."
(...)
"But isn't that worse?" Jesusín said. "If you don't have a name, you're invisible, and if you're invisible, you can't claim any rights. Besides, the offensive label man-woman implies disdain toward women. It reduces them to passive sexual objects that never act on their own desires.”
― Trifonia Melibea Obono, La bastarda

“(...) tugging at the uncomforatble braids my grandmother had made with fine thread three days before. I hated them. I wanted to live with my head shaved, without so much fuss. But my grandmother forbade it, since a woman should always be beautiful. And never ask questions.”
― Trifonia Melibea Obono, La bastarda