We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.