Teo Mechea

“Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, brother workers formed guilds and occasionally engaged in strikes or street protests in response to crackdowns, workplace closures, or unacceptable working conditions. Fifteenth-century prostitutes, arraigned before city councils in Bavaria, asserted that their activities constituted work rather than a sin. One prostitute (under the pseudonym Another Unfortunate) wrote to the Times of London in 1859 to state, "I conduct myself prudently, and defy you and your policemen too Why stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality? What is morality?”
― Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

“Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without anyone ever picking them up, holding them, using them.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“Dacă n-ar fi fost visele, n-am fi știut niciodată că avem un suflet. Lumea reală, concretă, tangibilă ar fi fost tot ce este, singurul vis permis nouă, și pentru că singurul, incapabil să se recunoască pe sine drept vis. Ne îndoim de ea pentru că visăm.”
― Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid