Ava Cairns

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“confronting Sanger’s white feminism enables us to move away from the reproductive choice movement, of which she is the founder and remains its leading hero, and toward the reproductive justice movement.”
― Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

“The anatomical specifications of rupture, of altered human tissue, take on the objective description of laboratory prose – eyes beaten out, arms, backs, skulls branded, a left jaw, a right ankle, punctured; teeth missing, as the calculated work of iron, whips, chains, knives, the canine patrol, the bullet. These undecipherable markings on the captive body render a kind of hieroglyphics of the flesh whose severe disjunctures come to be hidden to the cultural seeing by color.”
― Hortense Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture

“Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is “We don’t know.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions