“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
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“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
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“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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