"It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit."

-- Melissa Gira Grant

#People Quotes #Speak Quotes #Activism Quotes

“Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.”
“If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not”
“From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.”
“Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.”
“Seriously?" I shrugged. "He can't suspect much if every time we're alone instead of talking I have my way with him." Cole shook his head. "You don't think it'll work?" I asked. He rolled his eyes. "Vayl might be a vampire, but he's also a guy. Who's about to be deliriously happy. Good God, if you work this right, he won't even be mad if finds out because of the way you decided to hide it from him.”
“Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.”
“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.11, Spiegel & Grau
“Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.”

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