“She sacrificed the plans I had for her. The same kind of plans I’m sure your father has for you. She’s damaged goods, now. Her reputation will never be the same. So, neither will yours,” he said coldly.
“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to decide what to do with them.”
― Take My Hand
― Take My Hand
“You are not lost so much as you are betrayed by fools who mistook glimmer for power. They gave away all the symbols that hold sway. The penance for this is lasting. Your blood will have long been diluted by the time reason finally takes hold. Or the world itself will have been reduced to ash, making memory beside the point.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to “decide what to do with them. It was as if they were just taking our bodies from us, as if we didn’t even belong to ourselves.”
― Take My Hand
― Take My Hand
“We can disentangle control from love”
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
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