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“Presumably, remembered suffering never feels as bad as present suffering, even if it was really a lot worse - we can't remember how much worse it was, because remembering is weaker than experiencing.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“What did it matter where she came from, or whose child she was, when love was dancing in her veins?”
― Summer
― Summer
“I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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