[b]Naomi Alderman
The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.[/b]
Best perhaps not to go there.
It was like being part of a wave of water, she says. A wave of spray from the ocean feels powerful, but it is only there for a moment, the sun dries the puddles and the water is gone. Then you feel maybe it never happened. That is how it was with us. The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy the land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.
Best perhaps not to go there.
What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?
I know, but what if it is true?
It’s not for us to worry about the men, she says. Let them please themselves, as they always have. If they want to war with each other and to wander, let them go. We have each other. Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people, my sisters.
Nor for men to worry about the women?
…you are trying to steal that which you do not even desire.
On the other hand, don’t ever expect to understand why.
Fox News would say whatever makes the most people tune into Fox News.
Let’s file this one under, “they deserve each other.”