Jay
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“When a woman gets pregnant, her body is suddenly everybody's business. Endless restrictions could be clamped onto her "for the good of the baby". There's no better tool of control.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“She was going to have to socialize. Reading what humans wanted from each other was so much easier than when those attentions were directed at her.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“I hate the way I’ve contorted myself into what people think a girl should be, ready to please, ready to serve. Yet I love the power it’s given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“That kind of guy, they called him.
That kind of girl, they called me.
Well. Here we are. Meeting expectations.”
― Iron Widow
That kind of girl, they called me.
Well. Here we are. Meeting expectations.”
― Iron Widow
“They always said Hell was other people, but playing with my niece, it hit me that that wasn't true. Hell was missing other people.”
― Marginal Virtue
― Marginal Virtue
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