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“She’d once heard them described as the whispers—the moments that are trying to tell you something isn’t right here. The problem is that some women aren’t listening to what their lives are trying to tell them. They don’t hear the whispers until they’re looking back with hindsight. Feeling blindsided. Desperate to see the truth for what it is.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Whispers

“Was there a kind of lottery (Reggie imagined a raffle) where God picked out your chosen method of going—“Heart attack for him, cancer for her, let’s see, have we had a terrible car crash yet this month?”
― Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?

“Women, he sneered, what are they good for? Laundry and fucking. Ramsay wondered if Gerrit had actually met Nellie. His mother seemed good for neither of those activities, but then Nellie wasn’t really a woman, she was an element, like iron.”
― Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

“Being a woman had closed many doors to Hazel Sinnett, but it had also revealed to her a valuable tool in her arsenal: women were almost entirely overlooked as people, which gave her the power of invisibility. People saw women, they saw the dresses women wore on public walks through the park, and the gloved hands they rested on their suitorsâ€� elbows at the theater, but women were never threats.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story