13 Quotes by Anna Hope

They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. They watch with satisfaction as the boys cringe. They feel a power. They become electric.

Unlike music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It was taught in our earliest lectures: the male cells are essentially katabolic: active energetic; and female cells are anabolic: there to conserve energy and support life. While a little light reading is fine, breakdown follows when woman goes against her nature.

And whatever anyone thinks or says, England didn't win this war. And Germany wouldn't have won it, either.""What do you mean?""War wins." He says. "And it keeps winning, over and over again.

Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the baton in the intergenerational feminist relay. What she should have said - _Our best. We're just doing our fucking best._

Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does.

Ne pas s'enfuir était une douleur dans tout son corps. Partir était une douleur pire encore. Et elle était piégée, tiraillée entre les deux.

How do you stand it?" she said."Stand what?""All... this." Ella threw out her arm. "Does it not make you mad?"Clem glanced up. 'Much madness is divinest sense,' She said, and gave a small laugh. "There are plenty of mad women in here. I'm not sure I'm one of them though." She shrugged. "You'll get used to it.

The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose?

The big man bent to her ear. “You know you have to gamble, don’t you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose?