Lila

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“People who die don't actually want to be dead [...] They just want something to be different, something that feels like it can't change any other way. So the only real way they can figure out how to change their circumstances is by dying. And sometimes they're right. Sometimes, there's really no better option. But mostly it's just that the other options feel more impossible that they really are. Wanting something impossibly different—that feels like wanting to die, sure. But it's not the same as wanting to be dead.”
― Sarah Gailey