Lilac

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

“Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse

“Noting that when she occasionally tells her feuding daughters to ‘be nice’ what she really wants is for them to be quiet, Hewitt suggests that this may be the broader cultural subtext of ‘#BeNice and #BeKind’: ‘Aren’t girls and women really being told to “just shut up”?”
― Victoria Smith, (Un)kind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women

“There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. ”
― Joe Ryan