White Tears
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—I am afraid, I said. I am so afraid. —What are you afraid of? Of the sound underlying the other sounds, the suffering rising up all around me, the mare’s nest of cable I have to untangle if I am going to find the fault. Of the way the past
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“I wanted to tell him that in a framework where affection was circumspect, its overt forms were necessarily hostile. Look, I’d say, it’s like English grammar. It doesn’t make sense but it’s too late to change it.”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
“When you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre face à la culpabilisation et à l'intimidation, qu'elles prennent au sérieux leurs aspirations et qu'elles les préservent avec une inflexibilité totale face aux figures d'autorité masculines qui tentent de détourner leur énergie à leur profit.”
― Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes
― Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes
“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
― Necropolitics
― Necropolitics
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