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Book cover for She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Joking about poverty is a hallmark of women in poor spaces, while more privileged people tend to regard it with precious sadness—a demonstration of their own sense of guilt, perhaps, or lack of understanding about what brings happiness.
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Jonathan Franzen
“Happy people didn’t tell lies.”
Jonathan Franzen, Purity

Roxane Gay
“Women of color, queer women, and transgender women need to be better included in the feminist project.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

Jonathan Franzen
“A fact of my life was that I had a morbid fear of reproach, especially from women.”
Jonathan Franzen, Purity

Joyce Carol Oates
“Eventually I gave up making cards. There was such childish hope in these cards, I began to feel pitiful even to myself like a dog whose tail is thump-thump-thumping long after everyone has abandoned him.”
Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Casey McQuiston
“History, huh?”
Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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