Monica Cole

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I’m forced to face the unsettling reality that the people who are supposed to protect us are sometimes the same people we need protection from.”
― Julia Fox, Down the Drain

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men