Almost Famous Women Quotes

“I'm hungry for you. Old you, new you.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the other knowing.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Maybe the world had been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe there wasn’t a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“We are, I think, eager to show mettle we don’t yet have.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It’s your life. Let’s have a martini.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it’s like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Her body was more than burned flesh. Donating it to science was about taking control of the thing that was undeniably hers. Had”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“What I know now: the body is a strange vessel we leave behind.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories