Haliegh Smith

“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”
― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
― Lord Byron

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
― Charles Addams