Marracz

“Evelyn wondered ; why always sexual names? And why, when men wanted to degrade other men, did they call them pussies? As if that was the worst thing in the world. What have we done to be thought of that way ? To be called cunt? People didn’t call blacks names anymore, at least not to their faces. Italians weren’t wops or dagos, and there were no more kikes, Japs, chinks, or spics in polite conversation. Everybody had a group to protest and stick up for them. But women were still being called names by men. Why? Where was our group? It’s not fair. She was getting more upset by the minute. Evelyn thought, I wish Idgie had been with me. She would not have let that boy call her names. I’ll bet she would have knocked him down.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“If a man should live as if every day is his last, he should also die as if there is a day to come, and another after that.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light