Laxmi

“If we view feminism as an approach, a way to think about the world, it shifts the focus away from words, towards action. Feminist principles are not something that can be ‘achieved’. They are cultivated through a reflective process that has no end. They grow, change and take shape as we do.”
― Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“we’ve forgotten the things which made us. We’re orphans, I think. The orphans of history.”
― Piers Moore Ede, All Kinds of Magic

“To be nourished means to be brimful, satisfied and to treat our bodies with loving-kindness. Nourishment is the opposite of policing and gatekeeping. Nourishment rejects any attempt to blame us for our bodies, to shame us for what we look like or the food we eat. Nourishment rejects dieting. Nourishment is a feminist project because for too long, women’s bodies and what they consume have been monitored.”
― Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

“There is no greater revenge against someone who shattered your heart into pieces than letting go and opening the door for something good to walk into your life when the time is right.”
― Pierre Alex Jeanty, Her