Laura Porter

“The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château’s charm, that it didn’t have any objections to one’s committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill,”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans: Stories

“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward”
― Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

“It is like walking down a street and every so often someone beats the shit out of you. You mostly heal, but some injuries just don’t, and then you go out and walk some more, and someone comes by and beats the shit out of you again.”
― Jade Sharma, Problems