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“I used to scream, “Daddy!” and hug him when he came home,
Until one day I got scared hugging a father I didn’t know.
Who is daddy except for that one man in my house at night
To eat dinner, sleep, and go away again?”
― The Goodbye Song
Until one day I got scared hugging a father I didn’t know.
Who is daddy except for that one man in my house at night
To eat dinner, sleep, and go away again?”
― The Goodbye Song
“For me it was important to be alone; solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Make no mistake about it, people who say they love you but cannot be happy for your success do not love you.”
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“This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself.”
― In the Wild Light
― In the Wild Light
“She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn’t be called a tramp or a slut; had married so she wouldn’t be called an old maid; faked orgasms so she wouldn’t be called frigid; had children so she wouldn’t be called barren; had not been a feminist because she didn’t want to be called queer and a man hater; never nagged or raised her voice so she wouldn’t be called a bitch… She had done all that and yet, still, this stranger had dragged her into the gutter with the names that men call women when they are angry.”
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Elisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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