Lisa

“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold

“Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish", "self-interested", "self-centred", "self-obsessed" and so on? Why was it so much better to be without a self: "selfless", "self-sacrificing", "self-effacing", etc?”
― A.J. Dalton, Necromancer's Gambit

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan