Athena Macmillan

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“Now I know I’ll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I’m finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else’s pain, feel someone else’s everything.
And he’s my baby, so everything’s okay.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

tags: kristin-hersh, motherhood, parenting, rat-girl

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“Every good war picture is an antiwar picture”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

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“There are numerous oral stories which tell
of what it means, what it feels like, to be present while your history is erased
before your eyes, dismissed as irrelevant, ignored or rendered as the lunatic
ravings of drunken old people”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

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“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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“No pervs allowed in the Oval Office,” Donald said. “I didn’t make the rules.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

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