Ailu

“La raíz de nuestras desigualdades son los estereotipos de género y cómo estos se han conformado a partir de la construcción de un conocimiento que tuvo como autores protagonistas sólo a voces masculinas: ellos definiendo nuestra naturaleza. Creo con seguridad que si rompemos el tejido del cómo nos han educado, hay nuevas puertas que se nos abren para ser más libres.”
― María Florencia Freijo, (Mal) Educadas

“But then, what are books for if not to change our lives?”
― J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

“And you have to realize that you cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing. You cannot deceive yourself by hoping for caresses and lullabies from your vocation. In my life there have been interminable, desolate empty Sundays in which I desperately wanted to write something that would console me for my loneliness and boredom, so that I could be calmed and soothed by phrases and words. But I could not write a single line. My vocation has always rejected me, it does not want to know about me. Because this vocation is never a consolation or a way of passing the time. It is not a companion. This vocation is a master who is able to beat us till the blood flows, a master who reviles and condemns us. We must swallow our saliva and our tears and grit our teeth and dry the blood from our wounds and serve him. Serve him when he asks. Then he will help us up on to our feet, fix our feet firmly on the ground; he will help us overcome madness and delirium, fever and despair. But he has to be the one who gives the orders and he always refuses to pay attention to us when we need him.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues

“I don’t deserve joy!'
'No one does. It’s a gift from God.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads