Aysu

“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Yet the longing to be understood by a man down to the deepest, most secret recesses of one's soul, to be recognized by him as a striving human being, repeatedly decided matters. And repeatedly disappointment ensued all too swiftly, since the friend saw in me only the feminine element which he tried to mold into a willing sounding board to his own ego. So repeatedly the moment inevitably arrived in which I had to shake off the chains of community with an aching heart but with a sovereign, uninfluenced will. Then I was again alone.”
― Alexandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

“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

“Vi däremot vet, att det inte är kulturen och kunskapen som befriar och frigör kvinnan, utan det ekonomiska systemet, i vilket kvinnan får ägna sig åt nyttigt och produktivt arbete för hela samhället. Kommunismen är just ett sådant ekonomiskt system.”
― aleksandra kollontai, Kvinnans ställning i den ekonomiska samhällsutvecklingen