“I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women."
She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“I had never known Bonnie to talk like this. So depressed and ... gnomic? But then I remembered it was her birthday, so perhaps she was mourning the way all women of our age were supposed to mourn the precipitous vanishing of our worth, like, Whoops, time to grow a personality, which the world will also devalue!”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“Older ladies are good as well, you know.”
“He admires her ability to connect seemingly unrelated thoughts, but he just can’t seem to understand how she does it.”
Source: Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti
“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U' turn, I have only one thing to say. 'You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”
“Daughter, daughter, daughter—the obsession with the family’s honor resting on the purity of the women.”
Source: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
“There's a whole lot of things you don't know about niggers. And God forbid you should! There's a whole lot of things you don't know about white girls . . about yourself, Virginia. And God forbid you should! That's what we men are here for.”
Source: Holiday
“Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance”
“Meanwhile, nobody said, Haha, dang, isn’t it bad enough that rape and assault and abuse and harassment and boyfriends doing the emotional psychosexual whatever equivalent of sticking their beefy hand into your brain and wearing it like a baseball mitt or a puppet so they can just really move it around and infinity et cetera happens to so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so many of us, and we can’t even talk about it without having to apologize afterward?”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of substance and note.”
Source: Ordinary Human Failings