The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the sta… - Rebecca Solnit

We tend to treat violence and the abuse of power as though they fit into airtight categories: harassment, intimidation, threat, battery, rape, murder. But I realize now that what I was saying is: it’s a slippery slope. That’s why we need to address that slope, rather than compartmentalizing the varieties of misogyny and dealing with each separately. Doing so has meant fragmenting the picture, seeing the parts, not the whole.

Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.

Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.