Nadia

“Desire is no light thing.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

“Pasé por la vida como por una noche de insomnio,
sin encontrar una postura cómoda.
Ahora soy feliz.”
― Alfonsa de la Torre

“Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness & devours views from windows (stories, movies, overheard talk &sights in the street, pictures in newspapers, etc.) with continuous feeling she is 'just about', miraculously, to come into her own her own life”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath