Alice

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
― Nick Cave

“Eines Tages betrachtete mein Freund sein Bild im Spiegel. Sah zu, wie perfekt sein Spiegelbild seine Grimassen und Verrenkungen nachmachte, wie vollkommen es die Wirklichkeit imitierte. Und er dachte: Ich will so werden wie dieses Wesen im Spiegel. Ich will genauso gut das Leben imitieren können. Ich will genauso einsam sein."
Der Schattenkönig verstummte für einen Augenblick.
"Klingt so, als ob dein Freund kurz davor war, den Verstand zu verlieren", rutschte es mir heraus. "So, als ob er mal den Kopfdoktor konsultieren sollte."
Der Schattenkönig lachte schrecklich.
"Ja, das dachte er auch manchmal. Aber die Krankheit erreichte nie dieses gnädige Ausmaß, das ihm den Aufenthalt in einer geschlossenen Anstalt eingebracht und die Arbeit erspart hätte. Zum Irren langte es nicht ganz. Nur zum Dichter.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“There is no freedom or justice in exchanging the female role for the male role. There is, no doubt about it, equality. There is no freedom or justice in using male language, the language of your oppressor, to describe sexuality. There is no freedom or justice or even common sense in developing a male sexual sensibility—a sexual sensibility which is aggressive, competitive, objectifying, quantity oriented. There is only equality. To believe that freedom or justice for women, or for any individual woman, can be found in mimicry of male sexuality is to delude oneself and to contribute to the oppression of one’s sisters.
Many of us would like to think that in the last four years, or ten years, we have reversed, or at least impeded, those habits and customs of the thousands of years which went before—the habits and customs of male dominance. There is no fact or figure to bear that out. You may feel better, or you may not, but statistics show that women are poorer than ever, that women are raped more and murdered more. I want to suggest to you that a commitment to sexual equality with males, that is, to uniform character as of motion or surface, is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. I want to ask you to make a different commitment—a commitment to the abolition of poverty, rape, and murder; that is, a commitment to ending the system of oppression called patriarchy; to ending the male sexual model itself.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin