Katjuscha

“She felt suddenly the discomfort of being the only woman in a room full of men, men who gazed at her with speculative eyes. Her body did not seem to be protected by her clothes, and she resistet the urge to turn away. They would not make her ashamed of herself. They would not make her a human woman.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“And I told you it was my choice", [she] said. "But I was too foolish to understand what I was choosing.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“All she'd found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“[She] finally realized it was because he himself did not understand what it meant to be different and to have people expect you to change for their sake. She realized that no man could understand this, really, though they expected their wives to do so every day.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid