Vanessa Ceron

“The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“Even before I wholly knew I was a lesbian, it was the lesbian in me who pursued that elusive configuration. And I believe it is the lesbian in every woman who is compelled by female energy, who gravitates toward strong women, who seeks literature that will express that energy and strength. It is the lesbian in us who drives us to feel imaginatively, render in language, grasp, the full connection between woman and woman.”
― Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

“One of the cruelest crimes of patriarchy has been to teach us to project our thoughts into a future that will never come (getting together our vitae and our five-year-plans) or focusing us back into a past that is only memories of a present, keeping us unaware of the locus of our power in the present moment and effectively imprisoning us in time.”
― Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution

“Anger is a matter of saying no, of drawing a line, of saying "this is not acceptable." And if we cannot say no, we cannot say an honest yes either. In patriarchy, women are taught to make connection with others at the expense of asserting our own needs, wishes, and boundaries. Feminists, though, see that women can arrive at connection with others through respect for our own limits.”
― Dee L.R. Graham, Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence, and Women's Lives