Magdalena O!

“Disease is never neutral. Treatment never not ideological. Mortality never without its politics.”
― Anne Boyer, The Undying

“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

“To this day, watching a woman mindlessly tend to one thing while doing something else absorbs me. Like securing the backs of her earrings while wiggling her feet into her shoes. Like staring into some middle distance, where lines soften, and where she separates the relevant from the immaterial.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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