Aysu

“Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions, and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“We, the older generation, did not yet understand, as most men do and as young women are learning today, that work and the longing for love can be harmoniously combined so that work remains as the main goal of existence. Our mistake was that each time we succumbed to the belief that we had finally found the one and only in the man we loved, the person with whom we believed we could blend our soul, one who was ready fully to recognize us as a spiritual-physical force.

But over and over again things turned out differently, since the man always tried to impose his ego upon us and adapt us fully to his purposes.”
― Alexandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

“You can drive yourself crazy thinking about different things you could have done in the past.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Well, you don′t know fuck about my family
Could never tell you what happened
The day I turned seventeen
The rise of a king, and the fall of a queen”
― Marina Diamandis