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“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote, to work outside the home, to work in environments free of sexual harassment, to attend the universities of our choice, and we’ve also had to prove ourselves over and over to receive any modicum of consideration.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”
― Kathy Acker, Eurydice in the Underworld