Alice

“Puberty in the 2000s was Paris Hilton’s sex tape and Britney Spears’s crotch shots and Amy Winehouse drunk on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and if any of that happened now we would have found a way to celebrate it, but then it was disgusting.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“That question is one you're going to be asking yourself for the rest of your life. It's not just going to answer itself with old age. Loneliness, self-doubt, the purpose of life. Whenever you think about these things, you'll feel tormented and terrified that there are no answers, that you'll never figure it out. But there's something even scarier than not knowing. And that's going through life without ever asking.”
― Sohn Won-Pyung, Counterattacks at Thirty

“Over the previous two decades, we’d come to love each other, but it was a particular, conditional sort of love, one based on circumstance and courtesy rather than connection and compatibility.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Two Women Walk into a Bar

“We have been trained for goodness. Men, meanwhile, have been trained for power.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good