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Killing and secret-keeping had done this to me. It had begun to rot me from the inside out, and something inside meant to tear me open.
“I will not sugarcoat the ugliness. People are dead who should be alive. People die every fucking day. And I know where the poison lives.”
― The Travelers
― The Travelers
“To be born at all is to be situated in a network of relations with other people, and furthermore to find oneself forcibly inserted into linguistic categories that might seem natural and inevitable but are socially constructed and rigorously policed.”
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
“Eugenics regards the human race as a kind of library, some volumes of which need to be removed from circulation. The men ran back and forth, in shiny boots. There were ashes and fragments of burning paper in the air. More and more books were thrown on the fire, books by Freud and Reich and Havelock Ellis: dangerous books, degenerate books, books that dared spell out a lexicon of bodily delights.”
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
“Sometimes on the front porch, sometimes at the river, sometimes up by the pond. Didn’t matter where: that was our thing, talking in the evenings. What we’d done at work, who we’d seen. That was all good and well, but there was more. We’d talk about what we wanted out of life. We’d talk about the future. Updates we might make to the farm. Places we wanted to take our children. How we wanted to be.”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
“Sexual hygiene arguments allowed the liberationists to argue for legalising contraception by reframing it as part of a patriotic campaign to increase the quality of the nation’s offspring, rather than polluting the communal gene pool. Even the seemingly innocent rebranding of contraception as ‘birth control’ and later ‘family planning’, terms now so ubiquitous as to be unquestioned, were actually a way of making non-reproductive sex – sex for sheer pleasure – acceptable by smuggling it beneath a conservative, eugenicist banner.”
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
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