mischa

“Reicher Mann und armer Mann standen da und sah’n sich an. Und der arme sagte bleich, wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could only help a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The world will change, because it has to change.”
― James Baldwin

“The only difference between the woman who sells her body through prostitution and she who sells herself in marriage is the price and duration of the contract.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle