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“Tell a woman she is beautiful, and she might—it’s very possible—feel
like a fool. Roses die quick. They will do.
The girl you want does not exist.
The girl you want does exist.
But not like that. And not like that. Or like that. Or like that.
She is sitting across from you, looking just beyond you—at herself.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”
― Patti Smith

“Women [who are] sick with an
itch, dissatisfied to the point of dancing alone in their homes to music that isn’t so much music but dull pain with a tune. Women with demands that are mysterious even to themselves. Women who are runaways in their own kitchens. Women who are in no rush to respond to a world that’s only conceived them as its consequence. Who experience deep movement by playing air piano. Who are wind-oriented.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays