" The mythicised inhumanity of this attack remains unforgettable not only because it was performed by one mother on another mother – one dark and distorted, the other fair and privileged – but because it encoded the relationship between patriarchal masculinity, drugs, and the resulting – and accelerating – cultural denigration of the feminine and maternal. "

― Antonella Gambotto-Burke , Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine