The Female Complaint Quotes

“Everyone knows what the female complaint is: women live for love, and love is the gift that keeps on taking”
― Lauren Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

“It [women's culture] survives also because it's central fantasy, and the one this book elaborates, is the constantly emplotted desire of a complex person to rework the details of her history to become a vague or simpler version of herself, usually in the vicinity of a love plot”
― Lauren Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture