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“Well,” she said, “she keeps repeating how by Saturday night, she’ll finally be Mrs. Peter Dickman. As if changing her name is the finish line for a race she’s been in since she was six.”
“Women, endlessly told to smile but also tasked with making other people smile, are held accountable not only for the expression of their own feelings but also for the feelings of others.”
― Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
― Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
“Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Imagining happiness is the place you reach when you get everything done.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“A tiny version of Mark appears on her shoulder like an angel, reminding her not to say something snide about everyone playing house, about how Emma’s going to have her work cut out for her, cohabiting with someone who has a gaming chair.”
― Same As It Ever Was
― Same As It Ever Was
“You have been the capital error of my life, the one regret for which there can be no absolution, no peace. For you or for me.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
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