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“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.”
― Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Pariarchal Legacy

“Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.”
― Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy

“She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

“Wherein does a woman’s honour reside, old chap? In her vagina or in her spirit?”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus