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“Being a woman with power doesn’t mean Roz has to tread less softly around Mitch. She had to tread more softly, she has to diminish herself, pretend she’s smaller than she is, apologize for her success, because everything she does is magnified.”

“She’s just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it’s not, it’s the worst, it’s the worst feeling there is- incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope.”

Obsessed with Atwood’s writing; this is quickly becoming my favorite of her books.

“Some days-and this is becoming one of them- having a body is an inconvenience. Although she treats her body with interest and consideration, paying attention to its whims, rubbing lotions and oils into it, feeding it with selected nutrients, it doesn’t always repay her…Having a body, being in the body, is like being roped to a sick cat.”

“If they stopped giving medals to such men, thinks Charis, if they stopped giving them parades and making statues out of them, then those men would stop doing it. Stop all the killing. They do it to get attention.”

Bangers ever chapter

“You know those chemicals women have in them, when they’ve got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.”

Go off queen