I QUOTE THEREFORE I AM

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Every line we succeed in publishing today –no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it– is a victory wreched from the powers of darkness.

Walter Benjamin.

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Changing the story isn't enough in itself, but it has often been foundational to real changes. Making an injury visible and public is often the first step in remedying it, and political change often follows culture, as what was long tolerated is seen to be intolerable, or what was overlooked becomes obvious. Which means that every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard.

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark.

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Almost all the time we are the acquiescent prisoners of other's people's meanings.

Peter Hollindale.

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They claim to love you. And they eat you raw.

Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven.

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Name one hero who was happy.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.

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Those who want a mask have to wear it

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis.

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

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Gender makes us the kind of human beings that others understand.

Judith Butler.

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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another – physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.

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Pretty girls don't know the things that I know.

Disclosure ft. Lorde, ‘Magnets’.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

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She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.

Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys.

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Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys – maybe you just have to be angry all the time

Lauren Oliver, Delirium.

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It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

Ian McEwan, Atonement.

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1. Don’t fuck with men you don’t like. 2. Bring your own birth control. 3. Practice safe sex every time. 4. If it’s hurting you, it shouldn’t be exciting him. 5. Don’t fake – demonstrate.

Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day.

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Survival becomes for the human being, paradoxically, an endless testimony to the impossibility of living.

Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History.