Memoirs of a Teenage girl

Words

"Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny -- period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to
seek it out. They invent all these gods anddemons so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our
own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other and when there aren't any wars they can play rugby. We have it all going on in here, inside. We have
pain on a cycle for years and years and years, and then just when you feel you are making peace with it all, what happens? The menopause comes. The fucking menopause
comes and it is the most wonderful fucking thing in the world. Yes, your entire pelvic floor crumbles and you get fucking hot and no one cares, but then you're free. No longer a slave, no longer a machine with parts. You're just a person.
-Fleabag episode three, season two.-

Well, I'm not a poet. I'm just a woman. And as a woman, there's no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living or support my family. And if I had my own money, which I don't, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me.
-Amy March (Little Women)

"Godhood is just like
girlhood: a begging to
be believed."
-Kristin Chang-