to yearn for ignorance is to embrace the wishful thinking of a child.
“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“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.”
― My Life as a Rat
― My Life as a Rat
“But strict limits to intimacy are the straight man’s burden.”
― Purity
― Purity
“Women of color, queer women, and transgender women need to be better included in the feminist project.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“A fact of my life was that I had a morbid fear of reproach, especially from women.”
― Purity
― Purity
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