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“I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental diurnal patterns – they don’t go without saying: they are acquired, if not violently imposed. It is a lived and not an abstract form of knowledge that comes from living alongside a beginner – the way the days can all of a sudden feel like they're undivided, divided by nothing, only water.”
Kate Briggs, The Long Form

Curtis Sittenfeld
“Because my mother hadn’t been an ostentatious or performative person, it had taken me a long time, until college really, to realize how smart and funny she was, and how generously compassionate.”
Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld
“real worst-case scenario was that they’d know me in a way I didn’t want to be known by them. Even I wasn’t sure if my in-person self (a mild-mannered woman of average intelligence and attractiveness) or my scripts (willfully raging sketches about sexism and bodily functions) reflected my real self—or if I had a real self, or if anyone did. But I suspected that much of my writing emerged from this tension or lack of integration; I believed the perceptions undergirding my sketches arose from my being invisible or at least underestimated, including being mistaken for someone nicer than I was.”
Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Effie Black
“It isn’t a poor-little-me abuse porno.”
Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
“I have come to the conclusion that the one who calls himself the master of all creatures is in fact the most vulnerable of all animals, the most fragile species, more fragile than a porcelain vase, than a bird's egg, the most fragile of the fragile on the planet. The most sensitive creature on earth never actually recovers from being born.”
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

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