Kate

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“You are not a failure, you know,” he said, “simply because you can’t endure something unendurable.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength

“Roses have thorns. That's the price of roses. When you start to forget that, that's when things go wrong.”
― T. Kingfisher