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“Girl like a garden you never volunteered to tend. Dirt all tracked into your front hall.”
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“An angry man in cinema is Batman. An angry male musician is a member of Metallica. An angry male writer is Chekhov. An angry male politician is passionate, a revolutionary. He is a Donald Trump or a Bernie Sanders. The anger of men is a powerful enough tide to swing an election. But the anger of women? That has no place in government, so it has to flood the streets.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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