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“Beauty is demonstrably a cheat code for a slightly easier life. People just a little more likely to do you a favor, love just a little easier to access, the world just a little more welcoming.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice?

What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

“What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?”
― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology