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1 " Put those heels away. That click, click, click, click is Morse code for rapists. It says their sentence will be lenient or non-existent. If only she didn't wear stilettos. If only she didn't walk through a park. If only she didn't go out at night. "
― Jenni Fagan , Hex
2 " - As if going after a woman like you was something God insisted upon. Tell me what kind of god wants any of this? I would like to reassure you that five hundred years from now the fine line of misogyny no longer elongates from uncomfortable to fatal, yet I cannot. It's a form of brainwashing, isn't it? When you dared look at those men around you, what did you see? They al thought they were right.- In everything!- At all times.- What woman could question that? A dead one! "
3 " - What do you women do in hundreds of years from now then Iris from the ether?- We look over our shoulder far too often.- Aye.You laugh wryly.- We try to look bigger than we are sometimes. At other times we have to be smaller than we are. We do other things. Try to take down governments. Make great art. Keep others. Work without anyone noticing what we do for whole lifetimes sometimes. We hold hands. Drink too much or not at all. We traverse boundaries whilst looking ordinary. We give beauty and patience and science and our talent and our hearts and what was once firm in our bodies - we bestow our lives to this world, most often unseen.Jenni Fagan - Hex "
4 " - We take our chances if we go out after darkness.We often walk down the middle of the road at night.- Same.- We know that every close or alley or road might appear like it has an exit, but it may in fact be one without an end.- Aye.- If the State wanted us less dead, they'd do more about our murders.- They don't? - It depends. "
5 " - You know what really brings the storms, Geillis?- What?- A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free "
6 " The brightness of the stars!I needed them, so I did just the one thing. And it is really this they are killing me for.I went out at night.Alone. "
7 " I had to play the Jew's harp -- with my twisted broken fingers, for him.He wanted to see how I played it for the Devil... He saw no irony at all in me playing it for him after what he had ordered done to me. "