Myrtle’s Reviews > Luster > Status Update

“and all around the city it is happening to other silly, half-formed women excited by men who’ve simply met the prerequisite of living a little more life”

“They were dying inside their own bodies, and now all these dead components are my inheritance.”

I think the stove is on

“God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born just to die.”

Ohhhh the author is attempting a final mile literary sprint

“I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men”

“She was bare in a way that film betrayed so dramatically that she became grotesque.”

“We can’t let her do whatever she wants just because she’s black, Rebecca says. That isn’t intersectional feminism, it’s bad parenting”

I might use this when I’m a parent

“the pride I took in being alone”

“I have learned not to be surprised by a man’s sudden withdrawal. It is a tradition that men like Mark and Eric and my father have helped uphold”

Realer than real

“I return to the house by noon and sit in the garden. I dig a hole and find a smooth gray stone. I wash it in the bathroom and hold it inside my mouth”

Explain this to a Victorian child

“We were bonded in our mutual hatred of our bodies”

Women suffer a lot