"Update I ended this review with the words, "...to remind me to act with courage, and without rancour against those who disagreed with me," and I had a sudden flash of insight, Nelson Mandela is a very great hero of mine. He spent 27 years in prison, the dangerous black man opposing the white supremacist apartheid regime. And on the way out of prison he shook hands with the guards and wished them well. Two of these guards, James Gregory and Christo Brand had become such good friends and admirers of Mandela, they wrote books about him.

And I thought maybe that is the defining factor of a hero, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Nelson Mandela, being able to act with courage and without rancour against those who would or have done us harm leaving no time to think about vengeance, or hurt feelings, just moving on and addressing the issue and not the person who created it. I wish I could be like that. 3 Sept, 2021
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I'm not a feminist although I was once until I realised that I didn't want to stop at having equal opportunities and rewards in a man's world. I wanted the world to become more female-centric. Women and men are quite different in many ways, we have strengths and priorities and ways of working things out, and now we've tried the man's way, let's move on to the women's.

When I read that Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, "“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.�� I thought yes! This is how I feel, that men must come into the women's world and that all of us must have an equal opportunity to fulfill ourselves regardless of sex (and race, etc). Bader wants those equal opportunities to extend to everything whether it is time off for both men and women for child care, to insurance, to the military and most important of all the right to decide what to do with our own bodies.

Men don't face the awful choice of what to do with an unwanted pregnancy. Twenty years or more of raising a child or abortion. Men don't face it because they can leave the mother of their child and only pay child support. For perhaps the majority of women this will either be an inadequate sum or nothing at all. But women's wombs are owned by the government and to Bader this is wrong, women must have the right to have an abortion if they choose. Bless her for fighting so hard.

Like Bader I support all feminist issues unlike Bader, my support is minimal, just how I treat people, but she really gets things done. I believe her influence goes far beyond the US because the world looks to the US for progress whether or not they approve of it.

Could she have done so much on her own? She never needed to find out. Her husband, whom she always described as her partner, was her support whether it was giving up his job to follow her (which she also did to follow him) or to do the cooking and child care, he was there. They were there for each other. And perhaps that is the ultimate microcosm of how the world should be, we support and encourage each other in what we want to do and forget about gender differences and who is "supposed" to do what.

If I was into tattoos, which I'm not, I'd have Notorious RBG on my forearm, to remind me to act with courage, and without rancour against those who disagreed with me."

"For every millennial who thinks Lena Dunham is an important feminist, pick up this tidy gem of the feminist movement and fucking digest. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is bae. "

"Ok lemme just.....▄█▀█●

Ana did not come to play with this final installment. my back made a full rotation around the earth reading this book in less than 24 hours. i could feel my hoochilla passituchilla violently throbbing. it was giving everything i asked for. it exceeded my expectations astronomically. i’m now in a deep state of depression because this series is over wtffff 😭

this was giving the most heart aching slow burn, i lost my shit. and when the characters finally gave in, i was sent into full orbit. if there’s one thing i love it’s a broken man being brought down to his knees because of a woman. slayyyy

stella was the most relatable and enjoyable character out of the girl group in my opinion. i personally found a lot of myself reflected in her. she had some bad bitch moments and i was fucking here for it. her character growth and development was done satisfyingly. she’s hot as fuck and i’d be on my knees for her in 0.2 seconds. 🧎🏻‍♀��

Christian…god i need him more than i need air! deeply imaginative penetratingly so. every time he fucking spoke you’d think niagara falls was running down my legs. i want this fictional man to implant his DNA deep inside my body. he is the best man. he’s #1 !! and tbh if i cant be with Christian mfing Harper this whole life thing is literally not even worth it. i’m so deadly serious rn like pull the plug, cut the cord, all that. i’m not even playing. when i say he’s obsessed with her i mean he’s so fucking obsessed it’s concerning. there aren't enough circles in hell for the amount of sins I would let this man commit upon my fleshy vessel😩😩🤚

overall the plot was giving. i was fully invested in the story. this book stands #1 in the series and the way it all ended was nothing if not wholesome. i’ve said this before but i’ll say it again, if this book were a pole? i’d fucking strip on it 💃🏻


final ranking of twisted characters

women:
stella
jules
bridget
ava

men:
christian
rhys
josh (still not over chapter 46 in twisted hate)
alex (still think he’s annoying unless he’s around ava)

thx valentines pr for the arc "