Neele

“[...] perhaps the most difficult and most significant thing that we can do in this life is dare to be who we are. May you, dear reader, find the courage to be who you are. The world will be better for it.”
― Brice D. Smith, Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

“Ich glaube, ich kann dich nicht mehr leiden, Iremonger, ich empfinde im Augenblick tatsächlich eine Abneigung gegen dich, und in wenigen Sekunden werde ich dich wohl regelrecht verachten”
― Edward Carey, Heap House

“We speak of men and their rage as if it I laudable. "Men just get mad and push each other and it's over", we say. "Women are just bitches; they never let it go." That's because we never can let it go. Because where would we put it? What system? What faith? What institution has room? Has patience? Has understanding for an angry woman?”
― Lyz Lenz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Because of course I feared that i might be overreacting, overemotional, oversensitive, weak, playing victim, crying wolf, blowing things out of proportion, making things up. Because generations of women have heard that they're irrational, melodramatic, neurotic, hysterical, hormonal, psycho, fragile and bossy.

Because girls are coached out of the womb to be nonconfrontational, agreeable, solicitous, deferential, demure, nurturing, to be tuned in to others, and to shrink and shut up.

Because speaking up for myself was not how I learned English. Because I'm fluent in Apology, in Question Mark, in Giggle, in Bowing Down, in Self-Sacrifice.”
― Elissa Bassist, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture