Phoenix

“There is a desperation to a novel that is unsettling. The world so painstakingly re-created in miniature; this tiny diorama made of words. Why go to all this trouble, to create me, to seduce you, to enumerate so many different breakfast cereals? To make the cunning tiny apartment, the itsy-bitsy Jinx? It's like going to meet your new boyfriend's family for the first time and discovering they are all paid actors. It's almost easier to believe I'm real than to understand what's actually going on. The desperation that could have caused anyone to invent me in the first place. The urgency and need that would require creating an imaginary space of this size and level of detail.
And it really makes you wonder: What kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“Attached to all forms of sexual behaviour are meanings of dominance and submission, power and powerlessness, conquest and humiliation.”
― Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“Only in the system of oppression that is male supremacy does the oppressor actually invade and colonise the interior of the body of the oppressed.”
― Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, Love your enemy?: The debate between heterosexual feminism and political lesbianism