“I feel pathetic. No man would have fled town with a prospective editorship on the table. It wasn’t so much the job itself that scared me as New York. I could be eaten alive in a place where I don’t know anybody or know where the alliances are.”
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
“this is a man’s lot. And what did I get? An embarrassment of daughters. A shame of sisters…Did they serve lunch politely and tirelessly? Did they both show modesty and dignity?"
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Still, she finds herself in a Rehabilitation Center and she doesn’t “like being this fragile and feeling this out of control.”
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
“These past several months, Dad’s missed several classes, insisted on another professor’s parking spot, and wept in the lecture hall without apparent cause.
The Power by Naomi Alderman
“It’s been a year. There’s been footage on the TV of riots in faraway and unstable parts of the world, of women taking whole cities.”
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
"while he believed in the law, had spent his career working within the justice system, what he really had to answer to was his conscience"