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“What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life . . . this terror of being called names?
She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn't be called a tramp or a slut; had married so she wouldn't be called an old maid; faked orgasms so she wouldn't be called frigid; had children so she wouldn't be called barren; had not been a feminist because she didn't want to be called queer and a man hater; never nagged or raised her voice so she wouldn't be called a bitch . . .
She had done all that and yet, still, this stranger had dragged her into the gutter with the names that men call women when they are angry.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress

“A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!”
― George R.R. Martin

“The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast