Madeline Remkes’s Reviews > A Certain Hunger > Status Update

“Yet women weren’t always the angels in the house, and angels weren’t always benevolent beings playing harps on the tops of trees. We like to forget that men imprisoned women in the house and expected gratitude in return.”

“Here’s the thing about reading my memoir: it will make you feel good about yourself. You feel morally superior even as you identify with me. You slip into the supple skin of a cannibal for nearly three hundred pages, and enjoy it; then you can slough it off, go about your happy, moral business, and feel like you are a better person. “

“Appetites spinning them into unrequited nothingness.”

Some men need to witness female anger to believe in that woman’s love.