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.
“Happy people didn’t tell lies.”
― 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
“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
“History, huh?”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
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