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Evelyn McMullen
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It was more or less the same advice April had received for more than thirty years: If people are cruel, make yourself smaller and smaller, until you’re so inconsequential no one can target you.
“And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can't.”
― With the Fire on High
― With the Fire on High
“All pain is the same. Only the details are different.”
― The Yellow Birds
― The Yellow Birds
“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible. Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― How to Be Happy
― How to Be Happy
“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
― Cleopatra: A Life
― Cleopatra: A Life
“How do you come after me, when it is all of us? One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they’ll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it’s a trick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
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