Jacque Ni

“One often hears that the liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of men. The cliché is true, up to a point. Women and men share the same ultimate aim: to gain genuine autonomy, which means participating in (and being let alone by) a society that is not based on alienation and repression. But the cliché is also dangerous, for it implicitly denies that there are stages in the struggle to liberate women. Like many clichés which are true, it disarms thoughts and pacifies rage. It encourages a passive and merely reformist view of the problem.”
― Susan Sontag, On Women

“Anyway, he continues, what I really missed in the lockdowns was buying coffee. Sipping a flat white. If my identity is so fragile it depends on a flat white to keep it together, I can’t see the point of those years reading difficult theory and philosophy. Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”
― Deborah Levy

“Look at me, I was beginning to to enjoy the sun again, the mountains, even life's problem, I was beginning to accept that the meaninglessness of life was no one's fault but mine.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Depressed enough to wonder if Hemingway's real achievement in the early great novels was that of a travel writer who taught a provincial American audience what dishes to order, what drinks to prefer and how to deal with the European servant class.”
― E. L. Doctorow