Cleo Sood

“I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Women are prepared to suffer for love; it’s written into their birth certificates. Women are not prepared to have “everything,” not success-type “everything.” I mean, not when the “everything” isn’t about living happily ever after with the prince (where even if it falls through and the prince runs away with the baby-sitter, there’s at least a precedent). There’s no precedent for women getting their own “everything” and learning that it’s not the answer. Especially when you got fame, money, and love by belting out how sad and lonely and beaten you were.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I’ll show you a real asshole.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“And then it hit me: he doesn't love me. It hit me with a shimmering clarity: that was all there was to it. It didn't matter if he was crazy. It didn't matter if I was innocent or guilty. Nothing mattered except that he didn't love me. If I throw this pie at him, he will never love me. But he doesn't love me anyway. So I can throw the pie if I want to. I picked up the pie and thanked God for the linoleum floor, and threw it.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn