Hayden Vanier

“I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.”
― Bernard Beckett, Genesis

“There are other ways women have been made to disappear. There is the business of naming.In some cultures women keep their names, but in most their children take the father's name, and in the English-speaking world until very recently, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Bronte and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Je n'ai jamais mis les pieds à Sorel, ni le reste du corps d'ailleurs, et dès mon arrivée, je comprends pourquoi : rien d'attrayant dans cette ville plutôt laide dont la seule originalité est d'être une anagramme du mot «rôles».”
― Patrick Senécal, Grande liquidation