“Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.Remember that.”
―
Kameron Hurley,
The Geek Feminist Revolution
“Life was what you did with what was done to you.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The latter is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better?” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“Take me there. Or is this a kidnapping? Don't confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“This is something we don’t talk about . . . what happens when you are presented with a truth that contradicts everything you believe in? The widespread proliferation of information in the early days of the open knu, back when it was the wild net, should have made truth easier to find. But it turns out most of us don’t want truth. We want stories that back up our existing beliefs. Flood the world enough with information, and I will pick out only those bits that uphold the virtue and rightness of whatever corp I’ve been taught to love.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
“People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
“Humanity is a monster you can never kill.” ― Kameron Hurley, Rapture
“I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women’s History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.” ― Kameron Hurley
“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their “masculine” traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other—the fist or the open palm—it’s our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we’re in. Because to deny one half—to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it—is to deny our humanity and become something less than human.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.” ― Kameron Hurley, Rapture
“Your haters are not here for a conversation. They are here to keep you from doing your work.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“People succumb to fear, no matter the government. The everyday person doesn’t want war, but it’s remarkably easy to convince them. It’s the government that determines political priorities, and it’s easy to drag people along with you by tapping into that fear. I don’t care if you have a communist mecca, a fascist regime, or a representative democracy, even some monarchy with a gutless parliament. People can always be convinced to turn on one another. All you have to do is convince them that their way of life is being attacked. Denounce all the pacifist liberal bleeding hearts and feel-good heretics, the social outcasts, the educated. Call them elites and snobs. Say they’re out of touch with real patriots. Call these rabble-rousers terrorists. Say their very existence weakens the state. In the end, the government need not do anything to silence dissent. Their neighbors will do it for them.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
“She is equal parts manic brutality and strategic fuckery.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
“Life was what you did with what was done to you.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The latter is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better?” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“Take me there. Or is this a kidnapping? Don't confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.” ― Kameron Hurley, God's War
“This is something we don’t talk about . . . what happens when you are presented with a truth that contradicts everything you believe in? The widespread proliferation of information in the early days of the open knu, back when it was the wild net, should have made truth easier to find. But it turns out most of us don’t want truth. We want stories that back up our existing beliefs. Flood the world enough with information, and I will pick out only those bits that uphold the virtue and rightness of whatever corp I’ve been taught to love.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
“People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
“Humanity is a monster you can never kill.” ― Kameron Hurley, Rapture
“I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women’s History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.” ― Kameron Hurley
“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their “masculine” traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other—the fist or the open palm—it’s our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we’re in. Because to deny one half—to burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it—is to deny our humanity and become something less than human.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.” ― Kameron Hurley, Rapture
“Your haters are not here for a conversation. They are here to keep you from doing your work.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“If you think there’s a thing—anything—women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives” ― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution
“People succumb to fear, no matter the government. The everyday person doesn’t want war, but it’s remarkably easy to convince them. It’s the government that determines political priorities, and it’s easy to drag people along with you by tapping into that fear. I don’t care if you have a communist mecca, a fascist regime, or a representative democracy, even some monarchy with a gutless parliament. People can always be convinced to turn on one another. All you have to do is convince them that their way of life is being attacked. Denounce all the pacifist liberal bleeding hearts and feel-good heretics, the social outcasts, the educated. Call them elites and snobs. Say they’re out of touch with real patriots. Call these rabble-rousers terrorists. Say their very existence weakens the state. In the end, the government need not do anything to silence dissent. Their neighbors will do it for them.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
“She is equal parts manic brutality and strategic fuckery.” ― Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
