Isabel

“Sometimes you have to figure out who you’re not before you can become who you are.”
― Meg Bowles, How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

“The dark is for imagining. And you can see horrors. You can scare yourself with tricks of the mind and dancing devils. Or you can plan out your whole future in the pitch of night. You can dream with your eyes open. The key is to stay alive. If you still have breath in you, there is every chance tomorrow will be better.”
― Katherine J. Chen, Joan

“She could set the universe aflame, but she used herself as fuel. Somewhere inside, the earth was scorched.”
― Nadja Spiegelman, I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory