Lea

“I could make a case for my mother's rejection of domesticity as some kind of feminist assertion of her right to leisure.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“All present men are stand-ins for former men. And all men are stand-ins for our fathers. And even our fathers mean less than our own self-preservation. May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Of all the rapes I'd sustained, this was the worst degradation-the way a man who thinks nothing of you can loom larger than your life.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“FOR MANY YEARS MY RAGE was dormant.
I'd lived to survive. I could call up the hideous event, but in a far-off way. I could have dictated only the facts. I could not have called up each moment of horror.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal