Ashley Vining
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“my own mother told me that as soon as she and my father left Reno on their honeymoon—my father had been married before, so he needed a divorce—my father said to her, “Whew, that’s a relief, now we can stop pretending and be ourselves”?—and from that day on my mother never had a minute’s peace.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Ashvin acted nothing like how I would have behaved had I had the privilege of being a boy, but then again, most boys knew nothing of their incredible luck.”
― Kaikeyi
― Kaikeyi
“It was America. It was tits. It was sex. It was drugs. It was summer. It was angst. It was rock ’n’ roll.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.”
― A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
― A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
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Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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