Esther

“And sometimes the world is terrible, and love stories... They make it feel less heavy.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

“Each sperm and each ovum is potential human life, she said, "part of the wonderful human cycle to which there's no beginning and no end." Faced with a choice between potential human life and a living woman, she added, "I'm concerned with the living generation.”
― Karen Blumenthal, Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights