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Sally Rooney
“Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong against the weak, and she remembered a time several years ago when she had felt so intelligent and young and powerful that she almost could have achieved such a thing, and now she knew she wasn’t at all powerful, and she would live and die in a world of extreme violence against the innocent, and at most she could only help a few people. It was so much harder to reconcile herself to the idea of helping a few, like she would rather help no one than do something so small and feeble”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

Harishankar Parsai
“दिशाहीन, बेकार, हताश, नकारवादी, विध्वंसवादी बेकार युवकों की यह भीड़ खतरनाक होती है। इसका उपयोग महत्वाकांक्षी खतरनाक विचारधारा वाले व्यक्ति और समूह कर सकते हैं। यह भीड़ धार्मिक उन्मादियों के पीछे चलने लगती है। यह भीड़ किसी भी ऐसे संगठन के साथ हो सकती है जो उनमें उन्माद और तनाव पैदा कर दे। फिर इस भीड़ से विध्वंसक काम कराए जा सकते हैं। यह भीड़ फासिस्टों का हथियार बन सकती है। हमारे देश में यह भीड़ बढ़ रही है। इसका उपयोग भी हो रहा है। आगे इस भीड़ का उपयोग सारे राष्ट्रीय और मानव मूल्यों के विनाश के लिए, लोकतंत्र के नाश के लिए करवाया जा सकता है।”
Harishankar Parsai, आवारा भीड़ के खतरे [Awara Bheed Ke Khatare]

“You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like
you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.”
Yves Olade, Bloodsport

Sally Rooney
“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

Bonnie Burstow
“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

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