“Modern romance novelists use the patriarchal society of old British aristocracy to explore the gender-based limitations placed on women today in both the professional and personal spheres. That shit is feminist as fuck.”
“She’d always been the Watson to his Sherlock, Bonnie to his Clyde, the soy sauce to his ginger.”
― The Year of Cecily
― The Year of Cecily
“Men are idiots. We complain that women are so mysterious and shit, and we never know what they want. We fuck up our relationships because we convince ourselves that it’s too hard to figure them out. But the real problem is with us. We think we’re not supposed to feel things and cry and express ourselves. We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― The Bromance Book Club
― The Bromance Book Club
“If a man wants to leave you, wave goodbye and lock the doors. You've got better things to do than chase a lost cause.”
― The Bromance Book Club
― The Bromance Book Club
“We shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human in order to find love just because of a movie?”
― The Bromance Book Club
― The Bromance Book Club
“Modern romance novelists use the patriarchal society of old British aristocracy to explore the gender-based limitations placed on women today in both the professional and personal spheres. That shit is feminist as fuck.”
― The Bromance Book Club
― The Bromance Book Club
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