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“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Something That May Shock and Discredit You
― Something That May Shock and Discredit You
“[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures.”
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
“The truth is, there is no better place to live than in the shadow of a beautiful, furious mountain.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Why anger drew her she didn't know. Esme located men she could control; Kate chose men she could not. Perhaps it had to do, she speculated, with Esme's love of constructing a good story, as opposed to her own curiosity about the results of an experiment.”
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“And if she cast it in a more dramatic terms than she was willing to do, explained, emphasized, that she had said no, he would still be angry and she would be a rape victim, and that was not what she wanted to be. Those girls went around perpetually fifteen, weak, cutting themselves or wearing unattractive clothes, on the bring of crying when no one expected it. No thank you.”
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