Fernanda

“They come to ask for her teachings.
They say, "Why do you call God 'She'?"
Eve says, "God is neither woman nor man but both these things. But now She has come to show us a new side to Her face, one we have ignored for too long."
They say, "But what about Jesus?"
Eve says, "Jesus is the son. But the son comes from the mother. Consider this: which is greater, God or the world?"
They say, for they have learned this already from the nuns, "God is greater, because God created the world."
Eve says, "So the one who creates is greater than the thing created?"
They say, "It must be so."
Then Eve says, "So which must be greater, the Mother of the Son?”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Men are no longer permitted to vote – because their years of violence and degradation have shown that they are not fit to rule or govern.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“He’s crying a little now, from the shock and the shame and the fear and the humiliation and the pain. Tunde recognizes those feelings; he’s known them since the first day Enuma touched him. He has written in the scribbled notes for his book: “At first we did not speak our hurt because it was not manly. Now we do not speak it because we are afraid and ashamed and alone without hope, each of us alone. It is hard to know when the first became the second.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Lembra-me um tipo que conhecin há muitos anos. Morreu. Uma pena, porque teria moito gosto em matá-lo outra vez.
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― José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion