Amanda Corbin
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big things that stop us and kill us were addressed legally from the mid-1970s on;
“The world is not made for mothers. Yet mothers made the world.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“Well, the important thing with men is to find one that won’t kill you.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“The best use of literature bends not toward the narrow and the absolute but to the extravagant and the possible.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“But then I thought of all the times the cops had come to our door, your blood on my father’s hands, me in the corner screaming the truth to a dead crowd. And how they looked past me to you, asked, “Is everything all right here?” and when you said it was, that everything was fine, they told you to keep the noise down and left us alone.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
“Wherever I was, I felt alone. I still feel this way now, as if the things I’ve seen have created a barrier between me and the living world, and there is nothing I can ever do… to remove it. Though I keep trying.”
― Madwoman
― Madwoman
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