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“Aileen, I want to be the kind of girl who writes letters but I find it too time-consuming.I want to be the kind of girl who does yoga but I think it’s boring…I am afraid of being impulsive; whenever I stand on the subway platform I face the wall, I am not afraid of being pushed, I am afraid of jumping by accident, I am afraid it would be easy to believe I did it on purpose”

“Patriarchy colonizes our brains like a virus,” she said. It was an apt comparison. Like a virus, patriarchy harms the systems that it infects and relies on replication to survive. It flourishes in those who are not aware of its presence, and sometimes even in those actively working to expel it.”