Feline

“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“Is deze wereld dan niet mooi, mooi als een keizerlijk hemelbed waarin nooit meer wordt geslapen, mooi als een maanlandschap al is het onbewoonbaar?”
― Patricia De Martelaere, Nachtboek van een slapeloze

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire

“as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Los ingrávidos