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“Everything costs money,” Ham said. “But what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.
“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
“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.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
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