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“Even then, I could still appreciate the moment of simply making sounds with a group of people. There is another place you go to in those instances, and it feels”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you - a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“my yearning to be understood into something both pointed and vast”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“A male loner is a hero of sorts, a rebel, an iconoclast, but the same is not true of a female loner. There is no virility in a woman’s autonomy, there is only pity.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“As a woman I was taught to always be hungry...We could eat just about anything / We might even eat your hate up like love."
To me, that perfectly summed up being a young girl. It was the first time someone put into words my sense of alienation, the feeling that all these institutions and stories we'd been taught to hold as sacred often had very little to do with my own lived experiences.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
To me, that perfectly summed up being a young girl. It was the first time someone put into words my sense of alienation, the feeling that all these institutions and stories we'd been taught to hold as sacred often had very little to do with my own lived experiences.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
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