Anaclara

“I also believe that every woman can understand the unspoken expectations of it: the weight of motherhood that seems to be ever-present throughout our entire lives from the very moment we’re given our first doll.”
― Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

“one of the things I’ve learned is that we ought to live despite.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“I think she loves me because I’m her daughter. But I’ve never felt sure she loves me because I’m me. Does that make sense?”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“As Lispector writes, “not-understanding” would always be better than “understanding,” for not-understanding “had no frontiers and led to the infinite, to the God.” Lóri, Ulisses, we, Clarice, remain apprentices, always — apprentices in everything — because apprentices feel more, think more, struggle more, and win more than the master, who has already arrived, ever can.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures