Olivia

“Can the future be a white expanse? Can you run in, heart pounding?

I find I've never given much thought to the future. Beyond that sense of getting away. Derelictions, you see, left and right. Yet here I am.”
― Gwendoline Riley, First Love

“The freedom to make moral choices is the most important freedom we have; the freedom to act on our moral choices is the most important privilege we can claim.”
― Ann Furedi, The Moral Case for Abortion

“I've always engaged with the heart as a metaphor: a desire, a thing to survive, to heal from or shoot for.

Now I know there's nothing more real.

We walk through the world at its leisure. We're here at its mercy and with its blessing.

At some point, we have to ask ourselves how we want to live.”
― Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice

“In our new world, patriarchy isn't only unjust. It is maladaptive.”
― Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World