Carley Moore > Quotes

“Later, when the world had really gone to shit, the wives would learn that the things they carried was not only a groundbreaking short-story collection about the Vietnam War by Tim O'Brien, but also something much smaller, but equally political. The wives learned that they'd been carrying "the mental load," and it wasn't just the things, but it was all of the ideas and the feelings and worries and plans of the households they had somehow become the bosses of.”
― Carley Moore, The Not Wives

“The BOYS sign was different from the GIRLS sign, the letters more blocky and squared-off, more masculine than the curvier almost cursive letters of the GIRLS sign. Who decides these things, I wondered… Who decides that the boy and girl signs should be different, one hypermasculine and one hyperfeminine? Jeez, even these signs tell us how to behave. Boys--stocky, blocky, solid, and firm. Girls--wavy, curvy, pretty, and flowery.”
― Carley Moore, The Stalker Chronicles