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“Quella che lei chiama Bologna, è un cosa grande, che va da Parma fino a Cattolica [...] dove davvero la gente vive a Modena, lavora a Bologna e la sera va a ballare a Rimini [...] è una strana metropoli [...] che s'allarga a macchia d'olio tra il mare e gli Appennini.”
― Almost Blue
― Almost Blue
“Because of course I feared that i might be overreacting, overemotional, oversensitive, weak, playing victim, crying wolf, blowing things out of proportion, making things up. Because generations of women have heard that they're irrational, melodramatic, neurotic, hysterical, hormonal, psycho, fragile and bossy.
Because girls are coached out of the womb to be nonconfrontational, agreeable, solicitous, deferential, demure, nurturing, to be tuned in to others, and to shrink and shut up.
Because speaking up for myself was not how I learned English. Because I'm fluent in Apology, in Question Mark, in Giggle, in Bowing Down, in Self-Sacrifice.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Because girls are coached out of the womb to be nonconfrontational, agreeable, solicitous, deferential, demure, nurturing, to be tuned in to others, and to shrink and shut up.
Because speaking up for myself was not how I learned English. Because I'm fluent in Apology, in Question Mark, in Giggle, in Bowing Down, in Self-Sacrifice.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“This is rape's legacy, the countless deaths women die just trying to keep existing in the world as it is.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“quote by feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi in bright red. “I speak the truth and the truth is savage and dangerous,”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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