Grace

“I can't help it. My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It's always men against women, with the men only pretending to fight among themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America’s problem is not its betrayal of “government of the people,” but the means by which “the people” acquired their names.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale