Paula

“Words are like stone to build bridges.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Ich kaufe ja Bücher nicht, weil ich sie alle benötige, sondern weil ich mir ausmale, wie herrlich es sein wird, sie demnächst - sagen wir: eines Tages, zu lesen.”
― Durs Grünbein

“When does the war end?” I asked. “Does it end? That’s the question. Who gets to say that it’s over? A war continues until the victor says it’s over.”
― Percival Everett, James

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory