Bethany

“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn’t pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!”
― Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

“Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry.”
― Lyz Lenz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture