Carly

“If you're not careful, you'll end up mistaking difference for loss--which is how you lose everything.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“It’s the twenty-first century, and we’re still banging on about gender equality? Yes. Yes, we are. And we’re going to keep banging on about it until it’s sorted.”
― Claire Mitchell, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

“Language, too, forces the air from the lungs. Beyond the high walls and barbed wire and checkpoints that pen this place, there is the empire. And the empire as well is cocooned inside its own fortress of language-a language through the prism of which buildings are never destroyed but rather spontaneously combust, in which blasts come and go like Chinooks over the mountain, and people are killed as though to be killed is the only natural and rightful ordering of their existence.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Just as in the days of the witch trials, as the global situation worsens, people become more and more fearful. The current febrile political environment often veers dangerously to the right. Many of us anxiously contemplate the present and future realities of the climate crisis, struggle with the financial and social pressures of modern life, watch on in impotent horror at the seemingly constant worldwide conficts — all while actively participating in the emotionally heightening petri dish that is social media
We must take great care to guard against a new iteration of the witch trials.”
― Zoe Venditozzi, How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women