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“Fortunately graduate school had prepared her for this, the constant managing of despair.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Good jobs were vanishingly rare in academia. Alice very much wanted one. She wouldn't know what to do with herself otherwise. She had trained her entire life to do this one thing, and if she could not do it, then she had no reason to live.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
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