It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she
could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.
One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.
This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.
Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.
The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.
You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbour the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.