Status Updates From Women Talking

‘None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body.’

‘She will challenge God on the spot to strike her dead if she has sinned by protecting her child from evil that it may not harm another. She will lie, she will hunt, she will kill and she will dance on the graves and burn forever in hell before she allows another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of her three-year-old child.’