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“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Sula
“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“Being too much of one thing and not enough of another had been a recurring theme in my life. I was, like many young women, expected to be small so that boys could expand and white girls could shine.
When I would not shrink, people made sure that I knew I had erred.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
When I would not shrink, people made sure that I knew I had erred.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“Beauty is not good capital. I compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.”
― Thick: And Other Essays
― Thick: And Other Essays
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