Katherine

“It’s unusual for a woman to shoot herself in the head.” “She was raised in Reno,” Greta explained. “She was familiar with guns.” “Did she leave a note?”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Instead of how it is with my mother, where everything I do is to try to not be like her, which is basically the same as becoming her in a way, how a shadow of your hand is both your hand and its opposite.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

“If endometriosis affected straight men and their penises—never mind. You’d never hear the end of it. I imagine you have male clients who complain of women not being “enthusiastic” enough in bed. Well, chances are the women are in terrible pain. Or just average pain. Most women don’t say anything, though, because we’re conditioned to suffer, and to make men feel good about themselves.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Well. I’m willing to concede that life handles some people more roughly than it does others, and that you do have a choice in how you deal with it. You can decide what you want to do with it, but not until after you address it, which—I’m sorry to say—involves talking about it, for as long as it takes, identifying fears and triggers—”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss