Crystal Horrorder

“Stars in Their Eyes”
― Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

“I read this thing by Dorothy Dinnerstein, that says apparently when a little boy learns that their mother, who is the most powerful person in his life, really has no power within a patriarchy, he gets confused and it causes rage. And there’s nothing anyone can do about that, so long as the patriarchy exists. So yeah, that’s where that instinct for dominance over women can come from.”
― Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

“Time is sexist. There, I said it. Time discriminates against women. Those five and a half years mean something different to me than they do to Him. That relationship has ripped a chunk of fertility out of my timeline, for ever. And not His.”
― Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

“And most of all I’m furious at how devoted I am to it, and how much I don’t want to leave it. Because the more my eyes begin to open about harmful relationships, the more I see them everywhere, and the clearer it becomes that the longest running toxic love of my life has actually been my career.”
― Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth