Hayden Vanier

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“Alors, soudain, l’immensité silencieuse du cri. Ne va pas me dire que tu ne m’entends pas. J’ai la gorge pleine de fracas indispensables.”
― Geneviève Amyot, Je t'écrirai encore demain

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“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