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The Mothers
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A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.
“The [bird's] nest with its streamers was a final unbidden touch: It was what human hands had not brought to the building, and could not remove. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: It had been complicated, and thereby perfected, by what time had done to it.”
― The Invisible Bridge
― The Invisible Bridge
“For so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Misogyny is explicitly, visibly incentivized and rewarded. You can watch it self-perpetuate in front of your eyes.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“There is nothing novel or comedic or righteous about men using the threat of sexual violence to control non-compliant women. This is how society has always functioned. Stay indoors, women. Stay safe. Stay quiet. Stay in the kitchen. Stay pregnant. Stay our of the world. IF you want to talk about silencing, censorship, placing limits and consequences on speech, this is what it looks like.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
"Do what?"
"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
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