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“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying 'What? I'm not doing anything.”
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“Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are.”
― All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
― All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
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