“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a vocation, a relationship, a life. She intended to avoid that slow calcification as long as possible- if only by refraining from making any crucial choices. In other words, she was moving back home.”
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“I stood staring at the freshly made bed, thinking about how much of my life I'd spent feeling simultaneously like a child and the only adult in the room.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
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“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“It made me feel diseased, how little I seemed to want the things that other women my age did without complication”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
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