sarah mcGonagle

“The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.”
― Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”
― Louise Bourgeois

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex