Laura

“Dear reader, if you have never had a catheter inserted into your genital organ, do your very best to keep that record intact.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

“They're clichés, but they're true. And it's okay for me to say that, because I'm a cliché, too.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“Then I thought of all the other women, the real ones, the vast majority, patiently doing the work of servants without even a servant's pay - and neglecting the noblest duties of motherhood in favor of house-service; the greatest power on earth, blind, chained untaught, in a treadmill. I thought of what they might do, compared to what they did do, and my heart swelled with something that was far from anger.

Then I wished - with all my strength - that women, all women, might realize Womanhood at last; its power and pride and place in life; that they might see their duty as mothers of the world - to love and care for everyone alive; that they might see their duty to men- to choose only the best, and then to bear and rear better ones; that they might see their duty as human beings, and come right out into full life and work and happiness!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, When I Was a Witch

“Before I die I hope everything happens to me. I want to feel rotten and bawl, and then I want to feel good and laugh.”
― Marilyn Harris, The Runaway's Diary