Women Talking Quotes

Why does love, the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love, result in so much violence? [to August]

We do not need to be forgiven by the men of God for protecting our children from the depraved actions of vicious men who are often the very same men we’re meant to ask for forgiveness! If God is a loving God then He will forgive us himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His image. If God is omnipotent, then why has He not protected the women and girls of this colony? I will destroy any living thing that harms my child. I will tear it limb from limb. I will desecrate its body and I will bury it alive. I will challenge God on the spot to strike me dead if I have sinned by protecting my child from evil, and by destroying that evil that it may not harm another! I will lie, I will hunt, I will kill. I will dance on graves and I will burn forever in hell before I allow another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of my four-year-old child!

If in your entire life you truly felt it didn’t matter what you thought, how would that make you feel? When we’ve liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are.[to August]

We’re women without a voice. We have nothing to return to. Even the animals are safer in their homes than we women are. All we have are our dreams.[Mariche: Ona, you’re a dreamer.]

We like to put frames around things. Even when they are spilling out the edges.

We didn’t talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror.

The only certainty we’ll know is uncertainty, no matter where we are.

Surely there must be something worth living for in this life, not only in the next.[Scarface Janz: Does entering the Kingdom of Heaven mean nothing to any of you?]

Sometimes I think people laugh as hard as they’d like to cry.

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.[quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge]

Jesus is able to return to life, live for thousands of years and then drop down to Earth from Heaven to scoop up his supporters, surely he’d also be able to locate a few women who left their colony.[Mariche: How will the Lord, when he arrives, find the women if we aren’t in the colony?]

Is forgiveness that’s forced upon us true forgiveness?