Erin

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I always made dough men, I never made dough women, because after they were baked I would eat them, and that made me feel I had a secret power over men. It was becoming clear to me that, despite the urges Aunt Vidala said I aroused in them, I had no power over them otherwise.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments