How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

by Katy Brent

This is for every woman who has ever walked home with her keys between her fingers. And for my mum, who has always shown me what it means to be a strong woman.

‘When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.’ —JANE EYRE

‘It seems I could do anything when I’m in a passion. I get so savage, I could hurt anyone and enjoy it.’ —LITTLE WOMEN

I absolutely refuse to be around anyone who thinks they’re better than me because a) who has the time to waste hanging out with anyone you just will never get along with and b) no one is better than me.

He doesn’t look like a monster though. But they don’t, do they? Otherwise, they’d never get the opportunity to be monsters.

‘If Kitty wants to keep her kitty drier than a Ryvita, then that is her decision.

that stalking her would convince her to change her mind. I blame Hollywood for this. There’s still some notion that continually trying to win over a woman who has quite clearly expressed having no interest in you is romantic.

I’m sorry. I feel like I’ve let women down.’ ‘A lot of this was from a long time ago,’ I try to reassure him, but he’s right. He has let women down. Silence is compliance and all that. ‘But yeah. You probably should’ve.’