“Tell them the contours of patriarchy closed in, but haven’t crushed me. I’m the same person I’ve always been, broke but stronger. Tell whoever asks, that I’m still right here, and I — by which I mean we, us, women voices, mine and others — we’re not going away. We’re speaking up, erasing patriarchal privilege by calling it out.”

I had put the Ray Dalio book on my do-not-read pile even before knowing exactly how evil it is.

The first lesson Amiga learnt when she started to kill was how easy it is, and how utterly horrifying that can be.