I read a quote about this song recently that deeply resonated with me, so I thought it would be interesting to base a blog post around it. Florence has said Dream Girl Evil came from a place where she felt women were expected to be both angel and devil, whereas she merely wanted to be seen as human. My issues with Baby came from huge societal pressure and gender roles.
“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“Daydreams can be dangerous.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“Camille, if you could be any fairy-tale person in the world, who would you be?” Amma asked. “Sleeping Beauty.” To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely. “I’d be Persephone.” “I don’t know who that is,” I said. Gayla slapped some collards on my plate, and fresh corn. I made myself eat, a kernel at a time, my gag reflex churning with each chew. “She’s the Queen of the Dead,” Amma beamed. “She was so beautiful, Hades stole her and took her to the underworld to be his wife. But her mother was so fierce, she forced Hades to give Persephone back. But only for six months each year. So she spends half her life with the dead, and half with the living.” “Amma, why would such a creature appeal to you?” Alan said. “You can be so ghastly.” “I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been,” Amma said. “And even when she’s with her mother, she’s not really happy, because she knows she’ll have to go back underground.” She grinned at Adora and jabbed a big bite of ham into her mouth, then crowed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
“I always feel sad for the girl that I was,”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
"Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you didn't choose to do. Keep your identity." - Valley of the dolls
“Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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