189 Quotes by Kameron Hurley

...the love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with...

Aliens bled red, just like everybody else.

Stories teach us empathy, and limiting the expression of humanity in our heroes entirely based on sex or gender does us all a disservice. It placess restrictions on what we consider human, which dehumanizes the people we see who do not express traits that fit our narow definition of what's acceptable.

How are you feeling?""Fit as a harem girl.""You're as much a harem girl as I am a mullah," Suha said.

Life was what you did with what was done to you.

Most people who watch a fight think it’s all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other person harder and more often was like telling somebody that the way you kept from drowning was by moving your arms and legs.

Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.

Why is it all hot pants and back tattoos? Why the symbols of toughness instead of actual dark alley terror? Why do we celebrate “girl power” but sneer at “women power”?

Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what’s underneath.