Steffanie Rabalais

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Richard Yates
“She never seemed to lose her temper, but it would almost have been better if she did, for it was the flat, dry, passionless redundance of her scolding that got everybody down.”
Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Dorothy Allison
“there are no valid generalizations to be made about sex and women’s lives except for the central fact that we are all hungry for the power of desire and we are all terribly afraid.”
Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

Edwin A. Abbott
“¡Oh ser ignorante y obstinado! Os creéis la perfección de la existencia y sois en realidad el más imperfecto y estúpido de todos los seres. ¡Os ufanáis de ver, cuando no podéis ver, más que un punto! Os vanagloráis de deducir la existencia de una línea recta; pero yo puedo ver líneas rectas y deducir la existencia de ángulos, triángulos, cuadrados, pentágonos, hexágonos e incluso círculos. ¿Por qué desperdiciar más palabras? Basta con decir que soy la plenitud de vuestro yo incompleto. Vois sois una línea, pero yo soy una línea de líneas, lo que en mi país se llama un cuadrado: e incluso yo, pese a ser infinitamente superior a vos, soy poca cosa entre los grandes nobles de Planilandia, de donde he venido a visitaros, con la esperanza de iluminar vuestra ignorancia.”
Edwin A. Abbott, Planilandia

“Mary’s childhood was rough. She was frequently beaten and chastised by the nuns who served as her protectors and brutalized by the older girls in the orphanage.

Oh how I wept those first few years of my life. My tears came like tropical storms. Every pore in my body wept. I heaved and shuddered and sighed. Everything around me seemed dark and terrifying.”
Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

Rebecca Skloot
“HeLa was a workhorse: it was hardy, it was inexpensive, and it was everywhere. And”
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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