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“I was sixteen. I didn’t know I was too young for him. I just thought his attention meant that I was worthy of love—could be loved—and that I wasn’t broken. When a lifeline comes, you don’t evaluate whether it’s the right one. You just grab for it and hold on.”
― Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

“In his lectures to young communists in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong. They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes or to operate death camps.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

“If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

“How could this kind of contentment coexist with the mess in my head? How could this love coexist with the desire for a whole other love? Shouldn't they cancel each other out? I had watched my husband and child sleep, choked with feeling. I wanted to press a woman against a wall with the length of my body--a woman who looks like a boy--and fuck her. Does one life preclude another? I wanted both. Two lives in this body. Running alongside each other in parallel, like ski tracks.”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars