Ali

“It’s not a sock. It’s a cozy!” He stared at her blankly. “For a tea pot?” Surely, it was too small for that, too. With a tiny noise of frustration, she gestured at his face. “For your tusk. To keep it warm. But you don’t have to wear it if you don’t like it.”
― Sara Ivy Hill, The Ruin's Revenge

“Women are gaslit into believing that their bodies - the very thing that allows them to hack the big brain-small pelvis equation - are problematic and that consequently they themselves are problematic. We're dirty, silly, fat, gross, weak, or we're simply complainers. We are forced to make do with a medical system largely designed around the needs of men and we have our medical concerns dismissed as "not that bad" or we are told they are fabricated.”
― Jennifer Gunter, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

“As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain