Glad

“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Something had happened, and she wanted to tell other people, so that they would know what happened and how she felt. But when she tried to tell it—maybe to somebody else, maybe to herself—the story had no power. It didn’t sound, in the telling, anything like what it felt like in the living. It sounded ordinary, mundane, eminently forgettable, like a million things that had happened to a million other women—but that wasn’t what it felt like to her.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“Identity, according to Cavarero, is not something that we innately possess and reveal, but something we understand through narratives provided to us by others.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“The endurance of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” narrative has always relied on people ignoring who’s allowed boots and who’s given the straps with which to pull them up.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation