Dea

“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I would have had so much in having you and would have lost so much in losing you that I would no longer want anything.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss