The Bennet Women

by Eden Appiah-Kubi

“Some days being a woman is choosing the cherry for your shit sundae.”

He said, quoting Voltaire to himself, “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”

Broke in your twenties is an adventure. Broke in your thirties is a crisis.”

EJ’s eyes widened, but she remembered the words of her mother (“You can’t beat crazy with crazy”) and swallowed her initial response. She looked the seething redhead up and down, then said, “Gosh, you’re pretty. Have we met?” That phrase was the “Bless your heart” of Bennet House, their way of saying, “You are obviously physically attractive, but otherwise too dumb/annoying/worthless to live.”