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“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different—and this is crucial. Implicit”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“...the old pillars of an old decadent structure, are also built on the sexual fallacy. (Or as one is tempted to pun, phallacy.)”
― Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

“The female body was particularly absorbent when it came to shame. If you wrung out any woman’s body, you would discover it was soaked in shame.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“If they wanted to have time to read a book in the evenings, that was as important as any of Napoleon’s ambitions. Because what a triumph it was for any woman to have time for herself—and to be able to do something that benefitted her imagination alone.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“Every family is a cruel, intransigent monarchy.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“People became free in literature first. It was through books that new ideas entered the general population.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“The girls were playing in the labyrinth in Marie's garden one afternoon when they declared their love for each other. Every declaration of love is a magic incantation. It casts a spell on your future.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads