Beth

“I mean, of course that husband thinks he can still push you around,” Peg said. “You frighten him. A woman with a brain. Nothing scares them more.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“It was not unreasonable, she felt, to want boys to find her appealing but for them not to seek to subjugate her.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“Hazel believes that a person can be evil, and nothing more. There are millions of men out there who want to hurt women—people seem to think that Ansel Packer is extraordinary, because he actually did.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“A hero may be immortalized in song for a thousand years, but the greatness of a lover is a quieter thing.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros