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“Likability is a con, and we're falling for it[...] Is there such a thing as a likable woman? Can you think of one? And if she exists, could she be anything but the ultimate manifestation of everything we hate about the water we swim in, everything we're forced to be? Likability in a sexist, racist culture is not objective - it's compulsory femininity, the gender binary, invisible labor, whiteness, smallness, sweetness. It's letting them do it. If someone is universally likable, I don't trust that person.”
Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form-like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.”
Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

Sarah J. Maas
“Hello, princeling,” she said, her voice bedroom-soft and full of glorious death. “Hello, witchling,” he said.”
Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“But the reality is that there’s no such thing as political correctness; it’s a rhetorical device to depersonalize oppression.”
Lindy West, The Witches are Coming

“If you are one of those people who believes that racism is a thing of the past, never existed at all, or is defined simply as one person being mean to another person, you are claiming that white people genuinely earn—through ability alone, because anything else would be a systemic advantage—twenty times as much as black people.”
Lindy West, The Witches are Coming

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