Feminine Rage Quotes

“Men like him are entirely too quick to call a woman mad or monstrous just because she can do something they can't.”
― Susan J. Morris, Strange Beasts

“Sam chose her next words carefully—“I hear she’s very clever.”

What she’d actually heard was that Dr. Helena Moriarty, when faced with a man who wouldn’t stop harassing her, had taken up beekeeping, distilled the queen bee’s scent, and slipped it into the offending man’s shaving cream. After that, bees had swarmed him—impossibly finding him no matter where he went, wriggling and squirming through cracks and keyholes, air vents, and chimneys. It was enough to drive a man mad.

They just want to be friends, Dr. Moriarty was said to have echoed back at him. For indeed, he was only stung two or three times.
Needless to say, he’d left her alone after that.”
― Susan J. Morris, Strange Beasts

“But what goes on in the twisted tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Because I’m empty without rage. I don’t know how else to live.”
― Sfarda L. Gül, Non Serviam

“HEROES?” I laughed. “Look at the world! There’s nothing heroic about it… No, this world could burn, for all I care… and so could everyone in it.”
― iLana Markarov, The Timekeeper's Secret

“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his
heart in the marketplace.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Teen girls—fragile, naive, desperate to belong and to please—don’t make marks on this world. The men who erase their fatal attempts do.”
― Isobel Aislin, This Thing is Starving

“He's attracted to her because I am turning her into a victim, the same way I was a victim all those years ago.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“He's willing to rip his own teeth out of his mouth just to get out of this room. He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“There's something so beautiful, so enticing about feminine rage.
Maybe it's because we are bred to be delicate angels in a world
full of leering demons. Does that justify wanting to rip someone’s
fucking head off?
Yes. Yes, it does.”
― Katalina Evergold, Queen of the Pale Woods

“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control the exchange of ideas, the evolution of society? She had never really been all that interested in traditional success or power, but for a moment she saw the appeal of it, of an empire ruled only by women, and then the appeal of wielding might that could bring it all down, on a whim. An entire ruined kingdom as manifestation of one woman’s rage.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“He may very well be responsible for her undoing. But she would be his end.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“What makes you think I’ll ever appreciate this?”

Mora averted her gaze and her voice became soft and quiet. “A dead man can’t hurt you.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“I will never make it easy for you, Andras. You can control me, torture me, drag me to the bowels of hell if that suits you. But don’t think for a second I won’t take you down with me. I’d recommend you ask Dother his opinion, but I can assure you he’s very dead.”
― Sara Flanagan, Wish

“She stepped through with a head in her hand—a woman who was carved by the wrath of the Gods.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“Her eyes were alight with a fury that would certainly make
even a God fall to their knees.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“I am a quarrelsome, troublesome woman.”
― Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

“It sometimes seemed as though there was no place for a reserved woman in the world. One was either maternal or harsh. Warm or cold. Mirai wore her chilly nature as a badge of shame, though she knew herself to be deeper and more complex than such a label. If the rest of the world was unable to see her, so be it. Mirai knew that she was more than just one thing. More than just one box. She was a myriad.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“Don’t presume to tell me that you think him one-dimensional and incapable of pain simply because he is a man.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“She’d have liked to say that she hadn’t wanted to hurt anyone, but that wouldn’t have been quite truthful. She’d wanted to hurt everyone, to make them feel what she felt, or even just not to be alone in it. In the wake of her loss, she’d longed to throw away everything she’d worked for, just to undo the agonizing truth that she could not accept.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“I never chose the rose because it was soft. Men mistake it for a symbol of fragility, of perfume and petals, of dainty femininity wrapped in velvet and silk. They forget the thorns. They always do. That’s why it’s perfect and that’s why it’s mine. The rose doesn’t beg to be touched. It dares, and if you reach for it without reverence, it bleeds you.”
― Elijah Stepanovich, The Heir of Ash and Thunder

“You can't imagine anything worse? I want to ask him. Really? Like maybe being the person who has to go through the pain? You don't think that's just a little bit worse? But this is your father's moment. I see that now. I'm just a prop, and props don't speak.”
― Emma Pattee, Tilt