"Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Uprising Quotes #Justice Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.”
“I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.”
“I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.”

Source : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.24, Harmony
“Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Valley of Horses (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Two”, p.543, Bantam
“You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.
“Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of”
“You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it.”
“Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.”

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