All Your Children, Scattered Quotes

“Ont-ils la moindre idée de ce que c'est, «la voix des femmes»? Ceux qui disent que nous sommes bavardes ignorent tout des fleuves de mots que nous taisons. Que se passerait-il si nous nous mettions à parler littéralement, à dire les désirs innombrables d'avortements, les désirs liquéfiés de jouissance interdite, les desirs brûlants de pouvoir absolu?”
― Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, All Your Children, Scattered

“If I’d encouraged you to learn to play an instrument, to sing in a group, maybe you wouldn’t have gone to war?”
― Alison Anderson, All Your Children, Scattered

“The power of giving life, whether we like it or not: what a tragic farce. And what on earth am I supposed to do if I don’t want that power, if in my guts I reject it?”
― Alison Anderson, All Your Children, Scattered

“Because we give life more often than we take it, we owe it to ourselves to offer the human solution to the violence of men.”
― Alison Anderson, All Your Children, Scattered