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Laura Steven

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Laura Steven is an English novelist. She won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize for her novel The Exact Opposite of Okay (2018). Our Infinite Fates (2025) hit #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list, and remained on the young adult hardcover list for 15 weeks. Her adult fantasy debut Silver

Quotes by Laura Steven

“Bitches bite back. And men hate that. Society hates that.”

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“Basically, if you're a woman, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.”

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“Her engagement ring has a Dwayne Johnson of a diamond on it...”

Diamond

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“Because you know my motto: do no harm, but take no shit.”

Harm

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“[It may seem like we're always eating, but that's because we're always eating.]”

Eating

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“Have you tried to find a job?" "Good God, that's brilliant!" I gasp, faux-astounded. "I had not previously considered this course of…

Astounded

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“To the innocent onlooker it might seem sort of sweet. To me it seems like he's saying "I don't respect your decision…

Psychology

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“What do I want to be now? Bold. Fierce. Honest. A fighter. A revolutionary. A bitch. Because the way the world treats…

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“If the school population discovers I banged two dudes in one night, the girls will call me a bitch and a slut,…

Double standards

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“Unless an old white man can profit from your sexuality, you better hide it, because if it can't be exploited, it will…

Empowering

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“Don't look at me like that. This is a book about a sex scandal: did you really expect me to be a…

Books

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“Oh, right," I snap. "And because he's spent enough money and inserted enough friendship tokens, the offer of sex and/or marriage should…

Friendship

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“You're cute when you babble," he says to my total horror and disgust, because unlike the popular noughties rock band, cute is…

Babble

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“Someone posted a condom stuffed with dog turd through our letterbox this morning. Dumbledore got confused, bless him, and thought it was…

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“I get why he's lashing out. As a privileged white dude, he's used to being able to buy whatever he wants. He…

Love

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“The Friend Zone An imaginary area filled with self-professed Nice Guys who've been sexually rejected by women they've been Nice to. See…

Flirting

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“As a feminist I feel immediately guilty because everyone is trying to encourage girls into STEM subjects now, but to be honest…

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