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Absolution
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Looking back on those glorious first months of my married life, I confess I do wonder what ease, what pleasure, women have sacrificed since. Something to be said, I suppose, for the luxurious life of a contented concubine.
“Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische; Frische Fische fischt Fischers Fritze.”
― Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
― Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
“The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The train ride had been smooth, and she’d arrived well ahead of time, setting herself up in the Pret a Manger near security so she could have a bite to eat before going through the rigmarole.”
― Homecoming
― Homecoming
“But the truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that as the historian Andrea Tone noted in her book The Age of Anxiety, what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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