Gracebernard Quotes

“How little men promise. How much we grasp at it.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“I like being by myself, other people so often enrage or annoy with their inane small talk and fumbled attempts at meaningful connections.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“Perhaps i was spending too much time with boys, adapting my behaviour to fit in with them. Without a crash course in the works of Wollstonecraft, De Beauvoir, and Plath, i might have quashed the early flickers of rage i felt, tried to live small, as women are wordlessly taught to do from birth. But reading about other angry women made me bolder, allowed me to nurture my anger, see it as a worthy and righteous thing.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“Her dark fairy tales, where women plot and decieve, opened a door in my mind. I saw that, just as we did not have to be small and quiet and weak, women did not have to be good or stron, virtuous but ultimatlly sacrified. We could be underhanded, out for ourselves, led by desires we dared not to voice.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“The womanly softness is melting away. And i love it. This is none of that Instagram bollocks about 'strong not skinny' which just really hides an eating disorder in an obsessive excersice regimen - a Russian nesting doll of neuroses - i have this growing sensation of hardness, or armour, of being able to physically hurt someone with only my body and not just my wits. Men must feel this from birth. If i'd known how to use my physiciality to take out my family, would i have gone a different way? Would it have been easier or more rewarding?”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“People want to love you and you're repelled by it.”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family