Alitzel

“I am only true when I’m alone.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.”
― Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things

“Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?”
― Okakura Kakuzō

“That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another. Because I was intelligent I preferred to be a free prostitute, rather than an enslaved wife.”
― Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero