Beth

“I mean, of course that husband thinks he can still push you around,” Peg said. “You frighten him. A woman with a brain. Nothing scares them more.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“She burned with grief for all the times she hadn’t understood such a simple notion. That she didn’t have anything to prove,”
― Bonnie Woods, Kindling

“The patriarchy would have you believe that women are always seething with jealousy of each other: that we’re bitches”
― Julie Mae Cohen, Body Count

“I do believe that it’s the falls we take when we are far from the place where we grew up which make us robust, Eadie, which equip us for the world. I do believe it’s when we can get back on our feet and haul ourselves upright, miles away from where we perceive the safety of our childhood to be, that we become adults, that we are prepared for life.”
― Freya North, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne