“In a quick fit of anger she would go to the cupboard, and getting out her dolls would begin to torment them. She had always despised the idiotic creatures which, however, arrived with each Christmas and birthday.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“Feminism comes to all things, it seems, but it comes to recognizing homocidal rage the slowest.
You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway. I am a psychopath-and whatever their reasoning and whatever their diagnoses, the eager psychology and criminal justice students are right to study me. And if they're wrong, I still enjoy their attention, and I'll do what I must to encourage it.”
― A Certain Hunger
You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway. I am a psychopath-and whatever their reasoning and whatever their diagnoses, the eager psychology and criminal justice students are right to study me. And if they're wrong, I still enjoy their attention, and I'll do what I must to encourage it.”
― A Certain Hunger
“Some men need to witness female anger to believe in that woman's love. Some women need to get angry to experience that love.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“I read, I wrote, I learned, and I fucked—it was a classic liberal arts education.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“(Protestant, after all, because my mother was fake French. She was, like a gilded Louis XIV chair in a despot's palace, a knockoff.)”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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