Sristi’s Reviews > I Who Have Never Known Men > Status Update

“If the only thing that differentiates us from animals is the fact that we hide to defecate, then being human rests on very little, I thought.”

“They would also complain about the brutality. It hurt, men didn’t care about women, they got them pregnant and then walked out, saying, ‘How do I know it’s mine?’ Sometimes the women would declare that it was no great loss, and at others they would start to cry.“

I feel like the other women are just saving the narrator from a heartbreak.

“I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so. I think that that is what they call being consumed with remorse. I would no longer be able to get up, think, or even cook my food, and I would let myself slowly waste away. ”