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...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Arundhati Roy
Women, Struggle, Heart
Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

Arundhati Roy
Dream, Believe, Heart

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Arundhati Roy
Women, Struggle, Heart
Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

Arundhati Roy
Writing, Heart, Hair

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Arundhati Roy
Writing, Heart, Ambitious

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