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“By learning to truly love someone else, you learn to love the world. And yourself, which may be even harder.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Men lived forever in their bodies, in their statues, in the words they guarded jealously and the countries they would never let you claim. The immortality of women was a sideways thing, haphazard and contained in footnotes, as muses or silent helpers. “But things are different here,” my mother always said. She had never set foot in China, would pass all her life on American soil, but she knew how different things could be. She clung to that, and so did we.”
― Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

“Those bitches might have started it, but I sure as hell finished it.”
― Sian Gilbert, She Started It

“Men don't protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie