“Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.” [Isabel Allende]

“There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of ‘liking’ is ultimately a lie. But there is a such thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the techno-consumerist order: it exposes the lie.” [Jonathan Franzen]