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“The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When”
― A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
― A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.”
― Hot Milk
― Hot Milk
“You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.”
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“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”
― Swimming Home
― Swimming Home
“Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.”
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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