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“Why did life put so much inside a woman and then keep her confined to smallness?”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She'd seen her mother, her sisters, watched the way they wrapped their days around their men, the way it worked, a code she'd always known she'd avoid for her own life, who wanted it? what was the point? It wasn't worth having a man no matter how much people mocked you for lacking one.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
― Annelyse Gelman