I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.
Há alguns meses, ele escreveu dizendo que não queria que eu ficasse procurando os porquês, pois há certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais não podemos formular um porquê, para as quais os porquês...
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.
Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him.
He used to make me feel that nothing I said was witty enough or sarcastic enough or smart enough. He was always struggling to be different, even when it didn’t matter. It was as if he was performing h...
He reminded her of Obinze’s expression for people he liked. Obi ocha. A clean heart.
Han upptäckte att sorg inte mattas med tiden utan istället var ett labilt sinnestillstånd.
Ginika told her that ‘fat’ in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like ‘stupid’ or ‘bastard,’ and not a mere description liked ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So, she had banished the word ‘fat’ f...
For me, feminism is always contextual.
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that. Some
Feminism and Femininity are not mutually exclusive.
Everything is about them now. One day they will be grown and leave home and you will just be a source of embarrassment or exasperation for them and they won’t take your phone calls or won’t call you f...
Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself, and not what others want you to want.
Everybody is hungry in this country, even the rich men are hungry, but nobody is honest.
En ocasiones [...] se da por hecho que las mujeres se suponen moralmente «mejores» que los hombres. No lo son. Las mujeres son igual de humanas que los hombres.
Ela parecia tão feliz, tão em paz, e eu me perguntei como alguém perto de mim podia se sentir assim, quando havia fogo líquido me queimando por dentro, quando o medo misturado à esperança se agarrava...
Do not measure her on a scale of what a girl should be. Measure her on a scale of being the best version of herself.
Defiance is like marijuana—it is not a bad thing when it is used right. The
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. I
Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they a...