April Chaney

“She drew herself up, squared her shoulders and gripped her plaid. “I am not weak because of my femininity. I do not look down upon you for not knowing how to birth a child or the right way to guide a woman through her first menses. Perhaps you should ask yourself why you feel the need to look down upon me.”
― Emma Hamm, Heart of the Fae

“She wanted to trust him if only because he looked like Eamonn.”
― Emma Hamm, Heart of the Fae

“She sighed. Hopefully, Eamonn wouldn’t come waltzing back in while she stood stark naked in the center of the room. She dunked her mother’s dress in the water and wrung it out a few times.”
― Emma Hamm, Heart of the Fae

“It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the body’s cravings that a man must satisfy them even at such a cost.”
― Juliet Marillier, The Dark Mirror