“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenBookFacesWaitingWallCellsBeaten Author:Ahdaf Soueif
“Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?” IfsMenFeelsLittlesMadeWantedMovingIgnoredMisunderstanding Book:I Think of You Source: I Think of You