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“Capitalism breeds anticapitalists.”
― Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

“Watching happiness has always unsettled me.”
― Marissa Higgins, A Good Happy Girl

“Other control-oriented spankees are submissives. For these folks, spanking is something they accept because they know that giving a spanking pleases their dominant, or because their dominant has decided that they require one in order to shape their behavior. They are rarely resistant or mouthy; instead, they get their script from gamely doing their best to please.”
― Janet W. Hardy, Spanking for Lovers

“Any family could have lived in that room, filling the shelves with bought or borrowed books that eventually overflowed to the short glass coffee table. Porcelain ballerinas and clowns, cartoonish and threatening in their amplified emotions, must have been gifts from doting great-aunts. Three living succulents—I touched them, to check for falsity and perpetual longevity—were equally spaced in front of a thick copy of Elizabeth Bishop’s collected works. My family could not have lived in that room; I could not have lived in that room.”
― Marissa Higgins, A Good Happy Girl