I’ve also learned that while choosing joy makes it easier for me to love myself and my life, it seems to make it harder for the world to love me.
lk 284
I’ve also learned that while choosing joy makes it easier for me to love myself and my life, it seems to make it harder for the world to love me.
lk 284
A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter.
lk 194
The problem is that the parts of themselves that our boys have been banished from are not feminine traits; they are human traits.
lk 164
It’s a lifelong battle for a woman to stay whole and free in a world hell-bent on caging her.
lk 162
Ready meant having an internal narrative about what it means to be a woman that they could weigh against the world’s narrative. I did not have an alternative narrative as a child, so when the world told me that a real girl is small, a quiet, pretty, accommodating, and pleasant, I believed that this was the Truth.
lk 161
Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. Maybe she was meant to be our model.
lk 122
What women want is good. What women want is beautiful. And what women want is dangerous, but not to women. Not to the common good. What women want is a threat to the injustice of the status quo.
lk 121
So, we do not honor our own bodies, curiosity, hunger, judgment, experience, or ambition. Instead, we lock away our true selves. Women who are best at this disappearing act earn the highest praise: She is so selfless.
lk 116
When a woman wants more, she defies God, betrays her partner, curses her family, and destroys the world.
lk 115
Because our culture was built upon and benefits from the control of women. The way power trolling group is by conditioning the masses to believe that the group cannot be trusted. So the campaign to convince us to mistrust women begins early and comes from everywhere.
lk 114-115
Kliitoris on kaheksa tuhat närvi ja ikka ei ole see nii tundlik, kui valge mees, kes ei saa oma tahtmist.
lk 48
Ja skaala teisel otsas vägistamine, väärkohtlemine, vägivald. Vägistamine on sõjakuritegu. Aga rahuajal sellega kohtusse pöörduda pole erilist mõtet, sest äkki sa ikkagi ei hakanud piisavalt vastu. Seadusi koostavad mehed, need kaitsevad mehi.
lk 59
What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of himself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.
lk 75