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"He was content to the point of incurious, calm to the point of comatose."

- Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley

(p. 254)

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"Then you're allowed to stop looking for penance and move on with your life."

- Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors

(p. 309)

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"You used to be a princess and now you're a toad?"

- Furies - Siren, Margaret Atwood

(p. 13)

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"I can't accept that I'll have to miss her forever."

- Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors

(p. 328)

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"[...] and the universe responded as it does when men refuse to understand what nature is trying to tell them."

- Furies - Churail, Kamila Shamsie

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"Because she deserves to be fed, to be nourished, to be cared for and watched after, all by virtue of being a human being."

- Guy's Girl, Emma Noyes

(p. 338)

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"I wanted to live alone, free of the gaze of others, determining me from outside."

- Furies - Dragon, Stella Duffy

(p. 294)

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"that is work for girls to make them holier -

father fleck & other men being already holy i suppose -"

- Furies - Wench, Kirsty Logan

(p. 79)

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"Kathlyn's come to the bitter realisation that this is part of what it means to be in service: to be grateful for a bed in a house you could never afford to call home."

- Furies - Termagant, Emma Donoghue

(p. 65)

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"[...] and even as a small child I know she's doing this, monitoring the strength of her own spirit, partly so she won't seem to outlandish either to her husband and children elsewhere in the house or to her own friend sitting opposite, a friend who'll be every bit as up to policing women as any other woman or man or family when it comes to how women / mothers are meant to act in public or even in private in the comfort of their own homes."

- Furies - Spitfire, Ali Smith

(p. 232)

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"Every single thing I have, I've had to crawl across broken glass for."

- All the Other Mothers Hate Me, Sarah Harman

(p.147)

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"But I'm not like you. I don't need to escape every room I'm in."

- Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley

(p. 36)

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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"She wished she would just be a good mother or a bad one; this vacillating in between was unbearable."

- Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors

(p. 295)

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Love the centuries long female literary tradition of writing men who fall for women who hate their guts.

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"They say you don't know your principles until they become inconvenient to you."

- Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors

(p. 4)

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I'm writing this in real time as I'm experiencing a shift on how I want to review books in the future. And Dua Lips is the one who tipped over the first domino piece.