Elise Davies

“Access to time, as to any other valuable good, is gendered. One person’s time to work is created by another person’s work in time: the more time he has to work, the more she is working to make it for him.”
― Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

“I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn't the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn't even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.”
― John Marsden, Burning For Revenge

“Any man, I thought, ought to treasure such a wife – most attractive to look at, highly intelligent, an amusing and witty talker, an excellent cook. Yet I did not detect any fond glances or small gestures of attention from him to her.”
― Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

“To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

-"Sorry to Myself”
― Alanis Morissette, Under Rug Swept