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“But what I mean about being a woman is, we might get married now and stay married for fifty years and I might be a stranger to every instant of that time and you might never know it."
"But if I were a stranger- you would know it?"
"For a woman, she said, "I think a man is always a stranger. And there's something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni's Room

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to just exist in this world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“My experience has taught me that what you know isn’t always important.”
“What is important?”
“Living and growing,” Mrs. Wheatley said with finality. “Living your life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures