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We Burned So Bright
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Lucky to have this mother who trusted Homa and me enough to teach us how to feed ourselves and who made us feel competent and in charge with a casual respect I had not experienced from any other adult.
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Kamila Shamsie
“For girls, becoming women was inevitability. For boys, becoming men was ambition.”
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

Ruth Emmie Lang
“Weylyn's expression shifted gears. I could tell, even before he spoke, that he had drained his mind of his own sadness, and replaced it with empathy for mine.”
Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

Brittney Cooper
“It made sense that on the day of the Women's March, I skipped it and went to my girl's spot for a very Black brunch in Brooklyn. Watching white women take it to the streets to protest an election outcome that was a result of white women's powerful voting block, felt like an exercise in white lady tears if I ever saw one, and I knew I couldn't be trusted to act right amidst a sea of pink pussy hats and white women struggling to understand what intersectionality means.”
Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Rainesford Stauffer
“When I look at myself, it's a lot of 'where is your own ambition coming from?'. And the answer is, self-loathing, and trying to earn a self that I could tolerate. Writing it down now, it feels a bit like I stumbled out of the confessional and into a crowded room. Handing over a secret everyone would have been more comfortable I keep to myself. But that was perhaps the worst slow burn realization. That self loathing could actually be productive. I internalized the belief that the more anxious I was, the faster I'd work. The worse I felt about myself, the harder I'd strive to make my work good. I strove, really, as a means of separating from myself. The worst of it is, is I couldn't exactly define what I loathed.”
Rainesford Stauffer, All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”
Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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