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“Where do my tears go? Why is it that I can’t cry now when I need to? Yet I knew that later my tears would be unexpectedly triggered by the scent of lilacs, or the low hum of a cello.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“But whatever its origins, when we look hard and clearly at the extent and elaboration of measures designed to keep women within a male sexual purlieu, it becomes an inescapable question whether the issue we have to address as feminists is not simple "gender inequality," nor the domination of culture by males, nor mere "taboos against homosexuality," but the enforcement of heterosexuality for women as a means of assuring male right of physical, economical, and emotional access.”
― Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

“If I could imagine myself as God, I’d become him!”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“For now, I had to be hard and white. In the frosty days, in the winter, the ground is white, then the sun rises,, and the frosts melt...”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit