Anqi Fu

“Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.”
― Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

“Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.”
― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

“Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.”
― Valerie Martin, The Confessions of Edward Day

“To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back