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“reasonableness and positivity can feel like a kind of bullying.”
― Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
― Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
“You’re not supposed to have salt.” “I’m not supposed to have cancer, either. If you don’t bring me some brandy, I’m kicking you off my property.”
― Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
― Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
“Life is either getting a hand or giving a hand. Usually it’s both at the same time. ”
― The Alcoholic Bitch Who Ruined Your Life: Stories About Love, Death and Rehab
― The Alcoholic Bitch Who Ruined Your Life: Stories About Love, Death and Rehab
“Shame is a tool of oppression, not change. Fat”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“No crush will imprint itself on your hippocampus like your high-school crush, such that even seeing their name in print years later will make you catch your breath and recall a kind of beauty that has gone unrivaled by all the succeeding beauties.”
― Speech Team
― Speech Team
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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