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“despite the meanings of sex and sexuality changing dramatically over time, women have always been regarded – and treated – as inferior to men. Whether seen as sexually passive or active – as “madonnas” or “whores” – women’s sexuality has been regarded as a problem, and their bodies and expressions have often been altered to make them more sexually desirable and/or to police their sexuality.”
― Meg-John Barker, Sexuality: A Graphic Guide

“This is because most mothers know that the softest people with the biggest hearts are the ones who hold the truest magic of them all; purity of this kind can not be bought from the Gods themselves, and it was the greatest target of the devil-souled.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“The specific kind of anticommunism that took shape in these years was partly based on value judgments: the widespread belief in the United States that communism was simply a bad system, or morally repugnant even when effective. But it was also based on a number of assertions about the nature of Soviet-led international communism.”
― Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

“This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul