Carey

“Reese spent a lifetime observing cis women confirm their genders through male violence. Watch any movie on the Lifetime channel. Go to any schoolyard. Or just watch your local heterosexuals drinking in a bar. Hear women define themselves through pain, or rage against the assumption that they do, which still places pain front and. center. Hear the strange sense of satisfaction when they talk about the men who have hurt them - the unspoken subtext of it being 'because I am a woman'.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“He said, "If you knew your beauty."
Even the cat listened. Margaret said, "If I did, what then?"
"You'd set the world singing."
They knew he meant, You would find a man who truly loved you.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“The rage - at fate, at God. Not merely being helpless, but in someone's - something's - power. I've always detested any sense of power over me.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus