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The unsaid realization in Sagor’s observation is that for Antoinette, being “gifted” and “hardworking” were not enough, that she also could only get something else that she wanted by becoming, or pretending to be, what men wanted her to be.
“Incidentally, when it comes to 'unworkably quirky names for your baby', I believe that the greatest possible argument against teenagers becoming pregnant is that the baby names you like when you're, say, fifteen, single-handedly prove you're not ready for motherhood yet. My teenage diary records that, had I had a child in 1988, I would have called them either 'Kitten Lithium', 'K. T. Blue', 'Tatty Apple' or 'Aloyious Jonst'. Thank God my access to sperm was severely limited, to the amount of 'none'.”
― More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age
― More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age
“Everyone's had a tortured high school experience. You're not an anti-hero, you just suck.”
― Quince
― Quince
“Only an Imperial man would go to such lengths for something he wasn't even sure he wanted. Only an Imperial man would be so confounded by not having gotten what he wanted with ease. How upset he must be, that this one time the world did not grant him his heart's desire on his first request.”
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
“How upset he must be, that this one time the world did not grant him his heart's desire on his first request.”
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
“In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--"
"Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did."
"And was it--"
"Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was."
...
"What, uh, happened to the squirrel?"
"That squirrel is now 30% Jesus by volume," says Mom.”
― Simon Sort of Says
"Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did."
"And was it--"
"Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was."
...
"What, uh, happened to the squirrel?"
"That squirrel is now 30% Jesus by volume," says Mom.”
― Simon Sort of Says
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