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“She would grow into a handsome woman, the kind who resented being told she was handsome because she understood that to be handsome was to be not pretty and to be not pretty was to be invisible”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“I like to think of all of my father's kids as seeds of the same wilted flower, scattered across this universe—not doomed by virtue of our breeding but, instead, surviving because we are uplifted by the forceful winds of our strong-willed mothers and the purest beams of sunshine from our rundown grandparents, who selflessly took on the burdens of parenthood again—whose labour is never done. They give up everything to make up for the man who gives nothing. They break themselves just to see us bloom.”
― Eternity Martis, They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

“You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state.

(But what if I’m special? What if I’m in the minority?)”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation