

“I learned that being female is as prefab, thoughtless, soulless, and abjectly capitalistic as a Big Mac. It's not important that it's real. It's only important that it's tasty.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“I knew that lust was a dangerous thing, but I wanted these men to lust for me because, even though I didn't know the precise shape and weight of lust, I knew that lust was power - and I wanted power even then.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“We talk about love like it's an involuntary act. We fall into love, like a hole, a puddle, an elevator shaft. We never step mindfully into love. Love we seem to think, requires a loss of control; love necessitates that vertiginous giving over to gravity; love wants you to have no choice.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“Our female friends, the close ones, are the mini-breaks we take from the totalitarian work it requires to keep up the performance of being female.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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