“The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times when things were much more violent... But we don't have to act that way now. We can think and imagine ourselves differently once we understand what we 've based our ideas on.”
― The Power
― The Power
“New Orleans, though beautiful and desperately alive, was desperately fragile. There was something forever savage and primitive there. Something that threatened the exotic and sophisticated life both from within and without. Not an inch of those wooden streets nor a brick of the crowded Spanish houses had not been bought from the fierce wilderness that forever surrounded the city, ready to engulf it. Hurricanes, floods, fevers, the plague, and the damp of the Louisiana climate itself worked tirelessly on every hewn plank or stone facade, so that New Orleans seemed at all times like a dream in the imagination of her striving populace, a dream held intact at every second by a tenacious though unconscious collective will.”
― Interview with the Vampire
― Interview with the Vampire
“She was consumed. She was the kindling for the arson taking place in her heart, her brain dry wadding for the flames, her soul so much incandescent gas. She could not do this. She absolutely and fundamentally could not do this.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“...sexual freedom is when women do the things men think are sexy; the more women do these things, the more sexually free they are.”
― Right-Wing Women
― Right-Wing Women
“For in the beginning, as humankind emerged from the darkness of prehistory, God was a woman.”
― Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
― Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
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