Melinda

“Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?”
― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

“It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“She shouldn't have. She knew it. But her love for him was new, and her love for herself was old, and she was all she'd had for so very, very long.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies