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“She felt she would do anything to make him like her, to make him say out loud that he liked her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Whatever influence and status I’ve gained were only granted to me because I appealed to men.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“The world celebrates and rewards women who are chosen by powerful men.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“We can forgive any number of men murdering their wives and girlfriends. But we have a hard time extending the same compassion to women who kill their husbands and boyfriends, even though women have many more reasons to be driven to it. Culture refuses to see violence in women, and the law nurtures a special loathing for violent women.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger