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“Those who have power are the ones least capable of seeing how it should be wielded. But this needn’t be, for feminists at least, cause for despair. Feminism is a movement in it there have always been, and always are those whose power remains elusive- those who are still not women, those for whom winning so means surviving. It is these women, at the sharp end of power, to whom the rest of us must turn and then, turning, follow”
― Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

“When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back into the dream.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“Feminism is not a philosophy, or a theory, or even a point of view. It is a political movement to transform the world beyond recognition. It asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know; let us try and see.”
― Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo