Magdalena O!

“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I did not then understand that we—the women of that academic community—as in so many middle-class communities of the period—were expected to fill both the part of the Victorian Lady of Leisure, the Angel in the House, and also of the Victorian cook, scullery maid, laundress, governess, and nurse. I only sensed that there were false distractions sucking at me, and I wanted desperately to strip my life down to what was essential. June”
― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears”
― Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems