Status Updates From Let Me Alone: A Novel

Everything was ... hedged in with iron laws of custom and precedent, a complex system of etiquette. And the whole system seemed to be directed against the exercise of personal freedom--particularly against the freedom of the women. Between the sexes lay a vast unbridgeable abyss, there was no spot of common ground where a man might meet a woman frankly, as one human being meets another.

“Anna was surprised. She had no idea that her surprise packet included this quota of bullying, unbalanced fury. She smiled to herself as she listened to his onslaughts on the door. She was excited. But certainly she was not nervous; or the least bit compassionate. The new goblin in her was contemptuously amused at this display of black rage. And she hated him.“

“Won’t you show me the garden?’ he said to her, smiling neatly over his sharp white teeth.”

“She knew he thought he was behaving generously.”

She is so sharp. Sharper than Joanna Russ even.

“And Rachel could not bear to think of her destruction. She could not bear to sit there watching that sunlit, youthful figure whom she loved, and to feel the destructive effluence, the silent, relentless hostility which came from those foolish girls whose hearts were the cruel, normal, mediocre hearts of the mediocre world.”

Wow at Anna writing this about her self insert.