Shruti

“Chains of gold are still chains.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“you tell me
i am not like most girls
and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
like i am supposed to be proud you picked me
as if i should be relieved you think
i am better than them”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism