#silence

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#give #give me #just #just one #little

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. ↗

— Zane Grey

#everyone #i #i can #night #retired

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#depends #power #rapist #silence #women