Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

they discussed the difference between desire and nee

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

The best thing was to let her go.

love is a dangerous word when it comes from men. Quite often they don’t mean the same thing as women do when they say it. Sometimes they mean they’ll kill for it. Sometimes when they say it they don’t mean much of anything. Which, of course, most women come to know. Some with resignation, many with sorrow.”

It had been easier than he might have guessed to kill someone. Which only made it worse.

If no one ever noticed she was gone, what did she count for, really?

When you told men they oughtn’t to do a thing, that was what they did.

A concept that he had endeavored to impress upon his girls was that the law was impersonal; it wasn’t about your feelings, it was about your argument

That was one way in which the sexes had never been equal; they were not equally dangerous.

“I am woman, hear me roar,”