Widya Kumarasinghe
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“Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“There was always someone somewhere discovering a different life, a different experience than the day before, stepping off into uncharted territory. But I wasn't getting anywhere. I couldn't move; in fact, I was being pulled away, slipping further every second from the blinding light of that reality.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs
“Light spilled off every surface. The light of day. I meditated on this phrase and stared into the radiance.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs
“A commitment to disrupting the state's violence when and where we see it takes feminism outside of the realm of words and theories and makes it a living, breathing set of principles. It reminds us that where we can make interventions, we should and that only work that seeks to shake and unsettle the very foundations of the sexist state is feminist work.”
― Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
― Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Feminism is a political project about what could be. It's always looking forward, invested in futures we can't quite grasp yet. It's a way of wishing, hoping, aiming, at everything that has been deemed impossible.”
― Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
― Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
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