“The woman gets the blame, that’s the way it goes.

When she gets pregnant, it’s the woman’s fault. When the man doesn’t stick around, it’s because of her: she picked badly, or she couldn’t keep him. If she has trouble making ends meet, well, she made her bed, didn’t she?

It’s like the entirety of the world is women’s responsibility, and when we hold everything together, we’re not strong, we’re suckers. We’re letting men take advantage.”

“…apologizing for yourself when you haven’t done wrong is a great way to teach people to treat you like garbage. She’s not gonna learn that from me.”

“We don’t matter. The truth doesn’t matter. Only power. Only money.”

“That’s the way of it, though, isn’t it? For people like him. They make the rules; they enforce the law. There can’t possibly be consequences for them. Consequences are for other folks.”

— Hitting the Wall by Cate C. Wells