#essay quote

[academic-vampire]

“Often the devil is considered to be the root of all evil, but people forget that the first murder was a human killing a human—Cain killing Abel.”

-A line from the essay I wrote today (sounds pretty neat so I thought I’d share). @xojack

[words-and-coffee]

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

[misespinas]

“There is something every woman wears around her neck on a thin chain of fear – an amulet of madness. For each of us, there exists somewhere a moment of insult so intense that she will reach up and rip the amulet off, even if the chain tears at the flesh of her neck.”

Robin Morgan, “Goodbye to All That” (1970)

[loveful-heart]

I thought I was tired of the narrative that tells us women’s hunger is radical, but what I was really tired of, I think, was the culture that has generated the necessity of these narratives in the first place. It wasn’t my exhaustion with women’s hunger itself, but with the binary way conversations about it are so often framed, as if a woman eating can only be pitiful failing or epic victory. [...] Women’s hunger in horror is presented as neither failure nor victory, as neither inherently shameful nor a source of pride. It is allowed, instead, to exist in its complexity.

— from an essay "There’s Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman" by Laura Maw

[necessary-quotation-marks]

Out of all the centuries, eras, time periods and Universes we could have ended up in, we somehow both ended up here.

Heidi Priebe (This Is Me Letting You Go)

[canthardlystay]

I personally do not want immortality in a world where some people are still split-shift wage slaves and others piss in gold toilets.

Elizabeth Renzetti, on technology’s rapid advance in a time of growing inequality, from Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

[words-and-coffee]

We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

[words-and-coffee]

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists