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“Women are socialised from an early age to comply with hyper-sexual stereotypes found in both fast-moving media and ‘high art’ and cultural representations, which consequently become the default norm. And seeing women as sexually available in images found everywhere from the art gallery to the workplace to the top deck of the bus on the way to school, creates a totalising environment of erotic privilege for straight men.”
― Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

“Seeing these images in their heavy gilded frames, tenderly lit and guarded by tasselled ropes and attentive guards, somehow made male desire and violence both precious and part of the unquestionable natural order of things.”
― Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

“Hooyo, patron saint of
my children have different passports to me.
Hooyo, blessed saint of
raising them too far from home.

I don't recognize my own children
they speak and dream in the wrong language
as much as I understand
it may as well be the language of birds.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men