Her Majesty's Royal Coven Quotes

“the patriarchy, above all else, fears women coming together, so internal female division only succeeds in greasing that machine.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“the patriarchy, above all else, fears women coming together, so internal female division only succeeds in greasing that machine.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Leonie was on a roll now. ‘From the second we’re born we’re made to feel insecure about our bodies, our choices, our lives. Then we hit puberty and all of a sudden we have to be both sexual and chaste at the same time, while our bodies are going fucking mental. We start leaking, for fuck’s sake. Then, after we’re covertly trained to conceal our excellence at school, we get to go work for men who don’t understand literally any of those dilemmas, and think they’re innately more skilled than us. They want you to be like men, but also not like men. It’s a fucking trap. We’re fucked as soon as the doctor says hun, it’s a girl.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Mum, you're freaking me out. You're not a witch. You shop at Next.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Both history and the past are fiction. Only the present is real.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“A beginning often signals an end. That's the thing with dawn... you must first get through the night.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Diaspora was not an army, she had not raised fighters, but – like any queer she could name – Val and Kane were inherently warriors. When you have fought to be who you are your whole life, you are used to fighting.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Charisma is a kind of magic, a very dangerous and unquantifiable weapon.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Both history and future are fictions. Only the present is real.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“his touch sent ripples across her inner pond.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“And that’s what you get for always making me be Sporty Spice, you cunt.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“In her eyes, bossy, demanding and difficult were misogynist lexicon for drive, ambition and initiative”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

“She was just a woman who’d stepped up in a moment of deluded bravado. Gods, this must be how men feel all the time.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“As you know, once rich white people start doing something, they very quickly make it legal.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“Some white women struggle to see past their own oppression,’ Leonie said. ‘Look at the fucking suffragettes. Did they campaign for the rights of Black women? Or poor women? Did they fuck. Like, I get it, to be a woman in the patriarchy is inherently traumatic.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“They want you to be like men, but also not like men. It’s a fucking trap. We’re fucked as soon as the doctor says hun, it’s a girl.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“On peut pardonner à toute femme ses flirts d’adolescence irréfléchis. Quand on a dix-huit ans, on peut considérer un petit ami de vingt-quatre ans comme un signe de prestige, et non comme un sale type qui fréquente des adolescentes parce qu’elles sont plus malléables que les femmes de son âge.”
― Juno Dawson, The Royal Coven

“La plupart des adultes de son entourage étaient encore en train de résoudre tant bien que mal leurs propres énigmes personnelles. Elle trouvait un peu excessif d’exiger de Theo que tout soit en ordre dans sa vie à quinze ans simplement parce qu’elle était trans. De l’avis de Niamh, l’utilisation de pronoms différents ne faisait pas la moindre p*tain de différence pour une seule âme dans ce monde à l’exception de Theo. Et pour elle, ça semblait signifier énormément.”
― Juno Dawson, The Royal Coven

“I agree with whoever said [the Spice Girls] are soft porn. They’re the antichrist. —Thom Yorke of Radiohead, 1997”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven