Coral

“Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You only have to look back five years to see a different world and, by extension, tangible proof that culture is ours to shape, if we try.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“But the reality is that there’s no such thing as political correctness; it’s a rhetorical device to depersonalize oppression.”
― Lindy West, The Witches are Coming

“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West