Alexis Dalton

“These are the bodies we were born into. The bodies given to us by our mamis and our abuelas. What is so wrong with these bodies?”
― Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?

“Mi cuerpo es un regalo de mis padres.
El templo de mi alma, mi mente, mi corazón.
Mi cuerpo es orgullo,
un retrato de mi tierra,
una canción de amor.
Mi cuerpo no es tuyo para juzgar.
No es tuyo para decidir.
Ni tuyo para criticar.
Es mío, solo mío, y de nadie más.”
― Mayra Cuevas, Does My Body Offend You?

“People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done with losing.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

“We are taught so little about the health and safety of our physical bodies and also so little about how to protect them. Women have been kept in the dark of our own light, having to go to extraordinary lengths to educate others about what we need, from our basic rights to affordable health care, to our own sexual pleasures, to our emotional well-being. The burden is on women to be self-taught in a world where most men are already self-made—the latter being defined by expectations, the former by limitations.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution