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
“Never appease. No one's ever been respected for appeasing. The only thing you did was let them know there are no consequences to treating you like trash.”
― 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
“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
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