54 Quotes by Louise O'Neill

If I cannot speak, I suddenly realize, then I can change nothing.

Somos mujeres. Y las mujeres somos guerreras, después de todo.

No había nadie allí para escucharlas gritar «no». O tal vez sí lo había, pero ese «no» no se consideró digno de ser escuchado. Tal vez lo escucharon y no les importó. Los hombres que no quieren escuchar pueden transformar fácilmente el «no» de una una mujer en un «sí».

She catches sight of herself in her video-feed, her face contorted with fury. Wiping spittle from the sides of her mouth, she reaches behind her to grab her lip gloss and reapplies it. “And don’t even start thinking about what a bitch I am,” she says. Her eyes are steady, the heat receding from her skin. “This is not my fault. I’m just doing what we have been trained to do. This is who we are, freida. This is who we were designed to be.

I don’t know how people pretend to be something they’re not; it takes so much effort. That was always my problem, ever since I was your age. I didn’t care about what people thought of me. I only wanted to be true to myself.

Somos mujeres. Y, después de todo, las mujeres son guerreras.

We have never had a class on how to say no to men while simultaneously never saying no to them.

I could read his lips mouthing a word. Slut. There are certain words I can lip-read now. I know them so well.

It is your father who has insisted on calling me a 'witch'. That's is simply a term that men give women who are not afraid of them, women who refuse to do as they are told.