Julia Rodrigue > Julia's Quotes

“Some people may say I’m being contrarian, but I say better to be contrarian than die a thousand little deaths of disrespect.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“Fuck being cool and fuck being chill. If the reward for being the coolest girl in the room is a sliver of attention from the world’s most mediocre men then i would happily commit to never being cool and never being chill.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“Remember: nothing scares a man more than a woman who knows she does not need him.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“Support from women is a gift. It’s a resource in which you can find not only community, but empowerment. It’s a place you go to recharge and remind yourself that you are loved, important, and valid in this world. That’s what it always has been for me, and that’s what I always want it to be for all of you.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“When men say they want a lover, what they often mean is they want a mirror; they wish to see themselves reflected back at them in the best light.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“In reality we were just two mortals, bound by our respective roles in history, and whatever flickered between us felt so terribly fragile compared to the immovable weight of mountains, of kingdoms, of war.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“In a world where everyone will demand something from you, it requires a certain degree of selfishness to be happy, you know.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“Fanli. Flesh of my heart, light of my sun. He was here, in the enemy kingdom.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She does that thing you do sometimes of getting super polite when someone says something you think is stupid.”
― Holly Gramazio, The Husbands

“You can't stay married to someone forever just because they climb out of your attic one afternoon.”
― Holly Gramazio, The Husbands

“Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons