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“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

“The details are boring and some of them are just mine, but at the end of it, we were a couple again. I don't even think of it as getting back together because it didn't feel like a reconvening of the old relationship. It was a new one.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. Virtue cannot prevail among the white people, by its destruction among the black people, who form a part of the whole community. It is evident that the white and black “must fall or flourish together.” In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established — all distinctions, founded on complexion, ought to be repealed, repudiated, and forever abolished — and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color.”
― Frederick Douglass

“We urge you to regard with great skepticism any sentence that begins 'Everybody knows...' or 'Common sense tells us...' Often, these phrases are signposts for cultural belief systems that may be antisexual, monogamy-centrist, and/or codependent.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities