Megan Hunter > Quotes

“At around the same time a man in a pub told me gender equality was impossible, as long as a man continued to be the active party in penetrative sex, the doer, the woman the done to. I’d tried telling him that surely a woman could just as actively cover a man, but he didn’t look convinced. Even then, it had all felt pointless, word games that changed nothing.”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“Polite apologies, and all that lives beneath them.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“I asked my mother what a harpy was; she told me that they punish men, for the things they do.”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“There is a trail of anger flowing through my bloodline, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, to me.”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“blessed by something that might feel like God”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“At first there was only the sea, only the sky. From the sky came a rock, which dropped deep into the sea. A thick slime covered the rock, and from this slime words grew.”
― Megan Hunter

“I feared my thoughts could burst from me”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“I remember going on a protest when I was 14. We sat down in the city's busiest junction. We stopped all the cars until the police or some thugs dragged us away.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From