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“Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison

“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
― Toni Morrison