“This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path--the my-isn't-that-impressive path--and keep you there for a long time. Maybe it stops you from swerving, from ever considering a swerve, because what you risk losing in terms of other people's high regard can feel too costly.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away. The problem is not that one of these things is happening; it's that they are all happening, concurrently and constantly.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
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