Gina

“Our modern fetish is universal suffrage.... The women of Australia and New Zealand can vote, and help make the laws. Are the labor conditions better there?...
The history of the political activities of man proves that they have given him absolutely nothing that he could not have achieved in a more direct, less costly, and more lasting manner. As a matter of fact, every inch of ground he has gained has been through a constant fight, a ceaseless struggle for self-assertion, and not through suffrage. There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot....
Her development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality. Second, by refusing the right of anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc. by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer.... Only that, and not the ballot, will set women free....”
― Emma Goldman

“Erlendur cut her a slice of liver sausage. It wasn't nearly sour enough for his taste, although he has insisted that it should be taken straight from the pickling vat while he waited at the meat counter in the shop. The teenage boy who served him obeyed with a look of disdain, and obviously took no pleasure in plunging his hand into the sour whey. On the same shopping trip Erlendur had also bought some sour-lamb rolls, fatty breast meat on the bone, and a portion of sheep's head in jelly that he kept in a tub of pickling whey out on his balcony.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Hypothermia