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Girl, Woman, Other
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“They decided they needed to start their own theatre company to have careers as actors, because neither was prepared to betray their politics to find jobs
Or shut their mouths to keep them”
― Girl, Woman, Other
Or shut their mouths to keep them”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“I tell Mum she married a patriarch
Look at it this way, Amma, she says, your father was born male in Ghana in the 1920s whereas you were born female in London in the 1960s
And your point is?
You really can’t expect him to ‘get you’, as you put it
I let her know she’s an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women
She says human beings are complex
I tell her not patronize me”
― Girl, Woman, Other
Look at it this way, Amma, she says, your father was born male in Ghana in the 1920s whereas you were born female in London in the 1960s
And your point is?
You really can’t expect him to ‘get you’, as you put it
I let her know she’s an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women
She says human beings are complex
I tell her not patronize me”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“who loves to immerse herself in a universe where fiscal cells split off to create gazillions of replicas of themselves spinning off into beautiful infinity the glittering stars of wealth that make the world go around”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Courtney replied that she herself is a big fan of the non sequitur which really only means that a conversation is free-flowing and intuitive, as opposed to following a predictable trajectory, so to speak”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“her favourite writers are Olive Senior from Jamaica, Rosa Guy from Trinidad, Paule Marshall from Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid from Antigua, and Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“trans community is entitled to fight for their rights, you need to be more open-minded on that score or you’ll risk becoming irrelevant, I’ve”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“bugs me are the trans troublemakers, you should have seen the stick I got when I announced my festival was for women-born-women as opposed to women-born-men, I was accused of being transphobic, which I’m not, I’m absolutely not, I have trans friends, but there is a difference, a man raised as a man might not feel like one but he’s been treated as one by the world, so how can he be exactly the same as us?”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“an explainer of my own unique journey”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“we have to be more than teachers, we have to look after them, believe in them if we don’t help them, who will”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“was never told off for speaking her mind, although she was told off for swearing because she needed to develop her vocabulary (Yazz, say you find Marissa unpleasant or unlikeable rather than describing her as a shit-faced smelly bottom) and although she didn’t always get what she wanted, if she argued her case strongly enough, she was in with a chance Amma wanted her daughter to be free, feminist and powerful”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“while troublemaking on the periphery’s all well and good, we also have to make a difference inside the mainstream, we all pay taxes that fund these theatres, right? Sylvester”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“first she was a daughter”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Amma then spent decades on the fringe”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream than it was to make the dream come true”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“they made her feel crushed, worthless and a nobody
without saying a word to her
without even noticing her”
― Girl, Woman, Other
without saying a word to her
without even noticing her”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Penelope came to the conclusion that marrying someone when you’re in love with them was perhaps not such a good idea, better to wait a few years (ten, twenty, thirty, never?) to see if you’re still compatible after the passion has subsided and reality set”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“However, Rachel, one thing I learnt from my time down there, is that if you stay somewhere long enough, and behave in a civilized manner, people will get used to you”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“You do not raise a child without becoming an expert in the non-verbal signals they think you are too stupid to see”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“although Mum has been with every ethnicity known to humankind (it’s called multiracial whoredom)”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“he’d lost none of his revolutionary zeal which wasn’t necessarily a good thing”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“the house breathes differently when Yazz isn’t there waiting for her to return and create some noise and chaos”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“so try it out like a new outfit that may or may not suit, life is about
taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand”
― Girl, Woman, Other
taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“nobody talked loudly about growing up in a council flat on a skyscraper estate with a single mother who worked as a cleaner
nobody talked loudly about never having gone on a single holiday, like ever
nobody talked loudly about never having been on a plane, seen a play or the sea, or eaten in a restaurant, with waiters
nobody talked loudly about feeling too uglystupidfatpoor or just plain out of place, out of sorts, out of their depth”
― Girl, Woman, Other
nobody talked loudly about never having gone on a single holiday, like ever
nobody talked loudly about never having been on a plane, seen a play or the sea, or eaten in a restaurant, with waiters
nobody talked loudly about feeling too uglystupidfatpoor or just plain out of place, out of sorts, out of their depth”
― Girl, Woman, Other
“this metal-haired wild creature from the bush with the piercingly feral eyes is her mother this is she this is her who cares about her colour? why on earth did Penelope ever think it mattered?”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“Sarah emailed someone called Morgan who replied almost immediately that he/she(?) was managing the DNA test for their great-grandmother, Hattie Jackson, in order to find out more about Hattie’s own mother, Grace, who was half Ethiopian, they’d thought, only to discover her genes were spread wider in Africa, which was unexpected”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“perhaps she should get a dreadlock wig in keeping with her new identity, become one of those Rastafarians and sell drugs”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“well, feminism has a lot to answer for, Penelope said in commiseration, quite prepared to betray the cause if it meant finding personal happiness”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“then you need to talk to them, Dom, and we should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“if only the play was about the first black woman prime minister of Britain, or a Nobel prize-winner for science, or a self-made billionaire, someone who represented legitimate success at the highest levels, instead of lesbian warriors strutting around and falling for each other”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“she’s long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other