Quotes by Maggie Georgiana Young

“Carls abuse isnt obvious. Its not something one can even notice while its happening. Carl doesnt do you the favor of punching you in the face and sending you to school with a black eye so that you ...”

“An eerie aspect of social media is the way the deads account lingers in digital space as a floating memorial. Friends post emotional farewells as if the departed will read them. But we all know tha...”

“I fell in love with a sniper - a man whose basic training instills psychopathic tendencies. I loved a professional dehumanizer. I loved a man who lived in a world where empathy was suicide. I loved...”

“Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.”

“We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.”

“I always imagined rape as this violent scene of a woman walking alone down a dark alley and getting mugged and beaten by some masked criminal. Rape was an angry man forcing himself inside a damsel ...”

“The gentlemanly Number 23 would have never made such a crude statement to a lady. But I was not a lady. Sure, I was intelligent and strong, but I dared to be wide open. I was Maggie Young, chaser o...”

“While men had the right to obey their biological urges, women had to suppress theirs until the perfect moment. From television, movies, books, magazines, my peers, and even some of my relatives, I ...”

“My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was m...”

“But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they’d conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.”

“I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.”

“As a woman, I’ve had to choose between ignoring the full effect of my carnal instincts and exploring them with a man who will abandon me. Both result in emotional isolation. It wasn’t until tapping...”

“Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.”

“It wasn’t really a loud-mouthed, hyperactive little pig-tailed blonde that made Carl cringe. It was what I represented. While his upbringing was battered humiliation, I was spoiled, doted on, and s...”

“I’m pretty sure Number 1 wasn’t even aware that he was using a man’s deadliest weapon against women. He exposed his vulnerability. Over the years, I would repeat a pattern of chronically caving to ...”

“We didn’t realize that although the meaning changed, our “dirty places” remained the same.”

“Carl’s abuse isn’t obvious. It’s not something one can even notice while it’s happening. Carl doesn’t do you the favor of punching you in the face and sending you to school with a black eye so that...”

“An eerie aspect of social media is the way the dead’s account lingers in digital space as a floating memorial. Friends post emotional farewells as if the departed will read them. But we all know th...”