I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
No.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.