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“I hated this. Hated the sense that I got from Fang that there was some magical beanstalk I had to climb. Nothing good comes from climbing beanstalks, didn't he know that? There are giants up there. But Fang did know. The whole point was to climb to the giants and become a giant yourself.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.”
― The Odd Woman and the City
― The Odd Woman and the City
“The price of success is steep and I've never been able to distinguish it from the feeling of sacrifice. If I could hold success in my hand, it would be a beating heart.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“I had discovered the miraculous possibility that art holds out to us: to be a part of the world and to be removed from the world at the same time.”
― A Feather on the Breath of God
― A Feather on the Breath of God
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