“There are those who would counter with the notion that women aren’t shallow since we’re appreciative of what a man”
“Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.”
“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
“And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita.”
“those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.”
“We never know what we’re looking for until we aren’t there anymore.”