“She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.”
― Moonglow
― Moonglow
“When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.”
― What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
― What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
“Our repartee would be rich with subtlety and sarcasm, as smart and funny as midcareer Woody Allen. Our fucking, like Werner Herzog, serious and perplexing.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong.”
― Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
― Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
“Enforcing silence is easy. All you have to do is make it feel like the safest option. You can, for example, make speaking as unpleasant as possible, by creating an anonymous social media account to flood women with virulent personal criticism, sexual harassment, and threats. You can talk over women, or talk down to them, until they begin to doubt that they have anything worthwhile to say. You can encourage men's speech, and ignore women's, so that women will get the message that they are taking up too much room, and contributing too little value. You can nitpick a woman's actual voice—the way she writes, her grammar, her tone, her register, her accent—until she honestly believes she's bad at talking, and spends more time trying to sound 'better' than thinking about what she wants to say.
And if a woman somehow makes it past all this, you can humiliate her anyway.”
― Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
And if a woman somehow makes it past all this, you can humiliate her anyway.”
― Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
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