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“Our female friends, the close ones, are the mini-breaks we take from the totalitarian work it requires to keep up the performance of being female.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Choices must be made. In life as in writing, you kill your darlings. You kill, anyway, and then you see what you can take with you.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“when faced with the reality, we will chew and swallow our loved ones. It’s better to live with guilt and remorse than it is to die—”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Nature abhors a vacuum; jurisprudence hates a violent woman. We can forgive any number of men murdering their wives and girlfriends. But we have a hard time extending the same compassion to women who kill their husbands and boyfriends, even though women have many more reasons to be driven to it. Culture refuses to see violence in women, and the law nurtures a special loathing for violent women. Unfettered violence, anger unleashed, the will to destroy, the need to undo—these acts run counter to everything we like to think we know about the feminine nature. Yet women weren’t always the angels in the house, and angels weren’t always benevolent beings playing harps on the tops of trees. We like to forget that men imprisoned women in the house and expected gratitude in return.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger