Deborah

“Why should I have to sit and cheer through hours of “edgy” misogyny, “edgy” racism, “edgy” rape jokes, just to be included in an industry that belongs to me as much as anyone else?”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Both a hero and a villain reside in everyone ,,, a savant and a stooge ... a lover and a hater. Only the proportions and degrees of each set us apart.”
― Lee Stone