Served Him Right Quotes

“Witch is just another word for a powerful”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“And yet”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Tea is a whole experience of comfort”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“And if I got pregnant because someone raped me”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Am I a bad person?” she asked. She was so young. And already she’d internalized the message that as women we are not allowed to choose the course of our lives”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“But what happens here isn’t magic. It’s science. Nearly fifty percent of modern medicines were derived from the work of indigenous healers.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“And the poppy”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“He was an abuser and adulterer who essentially ruined Sadie’s life. If it comes down to a question of who poisoned who”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Unlike”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Maybe you can fool your kids into thinking that you’re working toward real inner change; but you can’t fool your sister.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“That night”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“There was no question of consent”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Our actions often have unintended consequences”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Witch is just another word for a powerful, fearsome woman in control of herself and connected to the earth. It’s a male word, something that justifies the institutional punishment and control of half the species. Because there’s nothing more terrifying than a woman who won’t submit, who has some secret knowledge that can’t be regulated.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Women aren’t supposed to kill. We are meant to endure, stand by. There is a kind of strength in that, to be sure. The strength to love, to hope for better, to forgive. But the women in my family don’t have that brand of strength. We’re different.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“Once a man hits you or harms you and you let him get away with it—Agnes warned us, as I know she warned Sadie, who never listened—he’ll hit you again and again until he kills you. A certain type will come after you when you try to free yourself. That type will need to be put down like a dog who can’t stop biting.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“It’s up to each of us to decide what brand of love we give and receive. But when it’s healthy, it’s not violence. It doesn’t hurt.”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“But I have found that people generally don’t want advice”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right

“There’s no such thing as an unnatural death. Nature has devised a million ways for us to die”
― Lisa Unger, Served Him Right