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Lisa Jay
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“This birth thing. And this death thing. Each one had it's turn. We entered alone and we left alone. And most of us lived lonely and frightened and incomplete lives. An incomparable sadness descended up on me. Seeing all that life that must die. Seeing all that life that would first turn to hate, to dementia, to neuroses, to stupidity, to fear, to murder, to nothing - nothing in life and nothing in death.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in separate misery. They knew the pointlessness of complaining or moving. They knew that basically no one can help anyone else. There is no key, no secret someone else has that he can give you.”
― Junky
― Junky
“When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevitable aspect of life rather than an action deliberately carried out by a perpetrator.”
― Everyday Sexism
― Everyday Sexism
“I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“I don't like to look out of the windows even--there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast.
I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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