Jessi

“...the nostalgia that keeps drawing us back to the brightness of Disney films and their ilk also has its dark underpinnings.”
― Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

“the essayist Montaigne had noted... Indians who visited France... "noticed among us some men gorged to the full with things of every sort while their other halves were beggars at their doors, emaciated with hunger and poverty. They found it strange that these poverty-stricken halves should suffer [that is, tolerate] such injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throat or set fire to their houses.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

“Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“The majority of exposed penises in major museums belong to the Baby Jesus.”
― Guerrilla Girls