Detainees Being Sterilized Quotes & Sayings

Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered - it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to be caused by a malfunctioning uterus - there is a very long history of critics using accusations or innuendo about women's mental health or emotional stability in order to shut down their political voices. — Sady Doyle

When I was little, my brother drew an image for me on the train ride home from the academy. It was a map of Internment, only instead of the real city, he'd drawn a castle for the clock tower. And the buildings were all different somehow. Mysterious. And right at the edge he drew a ladder that went down and disappeared into the clouds. It was the most spectacular thing I'd ever seen, and getting ready for my bath that night, I discovered it had fallen from a hole on my skirt pocket. I wanted to go out and look for it, but my mother told me the sweepers had already come. The paper would be collected with all the other forgotten-about things and it would be compressed and recycled into something new.
I looked for it the next day, anyway, to no avail. I couldn't believe such a wonderful thing could be destroyed so simply. I learned that it could. Anything could be destroyed. — Lauren DeStefano

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! — Teresa Of Avila

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that? — Kurt Vonnegut

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Put another way, to write is human, to edit is divine. — Stephen King

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also ... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We believe in the inherent goodness of man. — Steven Biko

We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Not anymore, the beast inside me roars. You're no longer employed by Storm Industries. You can do what you want. The temptation to take her, to make her mine, has grown into a savage hunger which won't be satisfied... — Magda Alexander

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know. — Lawrence Shepp

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much. — Janet Evanovich