“There were just four things a woman could be (five at most): daughter, wife, mother, widow, and slut. That was it. There were no other roles for them—no free and independent women, no feminism, no selfsufficiency. If you didn’t like it, you could be branded a witch and executed.”
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“Smart people are always learning something new. Stupid people just stay stupid. Remember that.”
“People generally forget the things they are ashamed of, but no one ever forgets an insult.”
“Her stomach rumbled, and Lily wondered how many calories her diplomacy had burned.”
“Time & Money. Many of us have neither. Some have one but not the other. A rare few have both.”
“Beauty is skin-deep, young man.”
“How much do we lose because we are young and stupid?”