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This book is menacing... I like it

"I don't think privilege males any one human a bad person. I think ignoring your privilege, defending your privilege, or refusing to understand where that privilege comes from is a problem. I have privilege because the world is fucked up. I think one of the best things we can do is recognise the true history and say no thank you, you guys did that and we are not okay with it" sharing the true history thats important

"sometimes solidarity is just that simple. Step up, reach back and keep pushing forward.
"The problem has never been the ways victims don't tell. so much as it has been that some victims aren't seen as valuable enough to protect"

i didn’t think bad men would mask themselves as good men. that they would never announce themselves as bad, or merely present themselves as good—until it no longer served them. pathetic until the end, i didn’t think a bad man.would take away my virginity with a throbbing blunt thud never call, or get me pregnant, or tell me that i’m a dramatic cunt that all kinds of women get abortions, “it’s not a big deal.” bad men

look at yourself, the skin, dark like sunned-in terra-cotta our arteries laced with tyranny, we are fighters, warriors. i am descended from khadija, from ayesha, from fatimah, too—ameen. i am the woman who wore a burqa to fight, the niqab to remind men that my body is an untouchable ghost, the horsewoman, like a beast, i sit on my throne, warning them with a grin, loose tooth our blades hollow, but still cutting, i a

how it is not polite to discuss my period in public i am made to feel ashamed for my biology but it is this opening on my body
that has brought life here you celebrate the birth of a child you support the sexual objectification of the vagina but you cringe when i remind you that she bleeds once a month       i am not sorry i ruined your image of a perfect woman god made me immaculate -immaculate

Magnus knew, though, how lovely could be a last hope and a star to steer by. Light that went out had still shone once"

"love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too"

"he was mad,it happens with age sometimes and the distance of humanity"

She would no longer be the flower, she will be the blade

"How do you destroy people? You begin by cutting off their roots"