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"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
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“I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“It’s true that he didn’t kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence steaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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