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“Getting attached, to me they were like tattoos, everything and every detail present and intact, everyone I’d loved and liked was still with me.”
― Ia Genberg, The Details

“If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict. In the love between a man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other. They form an alliance. It is, in a way, self-love.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother creator of men. Certainly it is difficult to feel compassion for the one who gives birth to man.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934