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“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 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

“Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth Five Difficulties

“This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed