“Why do all men seem to think they need to rescue a woman? Are we not capable of rescuing our damn selves? Why do I need to be rescued? I don’t need a man to rescue me, and I certainly don’t need no wallbanging, Purina-fucking, listening-at-my-wall-like-a-goddamn-psycho coming over here to rescue me! You got that, mister?”
“... we all need a little bit of rescuing from time to time. It doesn't make us weak.”
“It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.”
“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.”
“ And this time Zara White," he says, " this time it is my turn to rescue you." - Astley”