Pallavi Juneja

“What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.”
― Marilyn French, The Women's Room

“There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.”
― Marilyn French, The Women's Room

“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?”
― Marilyn French, Her Mother's Daughter