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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“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

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History