Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > The Future of Another Timeline > Status Update

“Hearing the truth isn't power. Doing something about it... that's different.”

“I wondered, not for the first time, whether I'd been traveling too long. Times bleed together in my mind. But maybe that's because there are always villages being ground to a pulp by somebody else's war.”

“Watching women demur to men in public and suffer the consequences of their abuse in private, it was hard to believe we were at a transition point in history when women's growing power could unsettle a long-established social order. But change is never linear or obvious. Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires a desperate backlash.”

“Everyone looked so scrubbed and affluent. Our rebel fashions were cobbled together from the expensive stuff we'd seen in some New York Times story about grunge. […] The punk scene, once my inspiration, now looked like a bunch of future bankers and tech executives learning how to harass women.”