Valentine

“Moi, je ne puis, chétif trouvère de Paris,
T’offrir que ce bouquet de strophes enfantines :
Sois bénin, et pour prix, sur les lèvres mutines
D’Une que je connais, Baiser, descends, et ris.”
― Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens

“Being proper and sweet and nice and pleasing is a fucking nightmare. It’s exhausting. As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl – how to be a good, pretty girl – from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we’re told that well-behaved girls won’t change the world or ever make a splash. So it’s sort of like, well, what the fuck am I supposed to be? I’m supposed to be a really polite revolutionary?” Phoebe Waller-Bridge spreads her arms and starts to laugh. “It’s impossible.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Believers favour answers over questions, clarity over uncertainty. Athiests, more or less the same. Funny, when it comes to God, Whom we know next to nothing about, very few of us actually say, 'I don't know.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist