Danielle Routh

“Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression "human rights" is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“There is never just one transgression. There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Theology is a distinctly rare, a puzzling study, given that its practitioners are happiest when the terms of their discovery fall well short of their projected point; this is where they likely glimpse their proof.”
― Scott Cairns, Idiot Psalms: New Poems