The Change

by Kirsten Miller

different for men.” He reached out to stroke her cheek. When Celeste flinched, he must have realized he’d said the wrong thing. “It’s terrible, but it’s true. Now that I’m part of the leadership team, I’ll be doing my best to change things.”

Sad but true. I've Seen it.

Jo often wondered if some of the doctors around Mattauk had chosen the profession so they’d have an excuse to humiliate women.

You know what? Good point!

No matter what Jo accomplished, her body—and those of the women around her—made her question what was truly valued.

The sad reality of being a woman...

There was no way a handsome, happily married police officer would be making the moves on a gawky fifteen-year-old.

Makes Very little sense and yet it happens so much...

“Her husband, Andrew, and I used to work together,” she said. “Now he has the job I deserved, and I have sex with his wife. I think I got the better deal, don’t you?”

Ahahah very true!!

Then the billionaires who lived there could pretend their world was always this way, and the sight of the sweating, aching humans who made it all possible wouldn’t ruin the illusion.

Incredible how i believe this the rich people desire.

She imagined the tens of thousands of dollars she’d wasted on her hair and makeup, hoping that would somehow make them all see her. Most painful of all, she mourned the time she could have spent with her daughter.

Time that one cannot recover. In the end all the make up and all makes very little difference.

women are nothing but baby machines. Girls disappear all the time, and no one ever bothers to look.

“The flowers are Korean aconite. Some call them wolfsbane. Their poison has been saving women from assholes for thousands of years.”

“Yes, only in America could a rat-eating French peasant corner the market on nineteenth-century portraits of American aristocracy.

Wow the class entitlement here!

So we sold a version of attractiveness you could buy instead. And over time, people forgot there was any other type.

“Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn’t good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do.”

“The Commandments only apply to humans,” said the older woman. “Nobody goes to hell for killing a monster.”

frustrated and impatient when things don’t get done the way you would do them. Then you take on the burdens all by yourself. And you’ll just keep on taking them, one after another, until they finally crush you.”

This sounds like me.