It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that.

Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?

It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.

People don't find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first.

Harry was one of the only men on the lot who didn't stare directly at my chest. It actually bothered me, as if I'd been doing something wrong to not get his attention. It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.

That's the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn't the end of you.

That is the fastest way to ruin a woman’s reputation, after all—to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction.