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“Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“She was sick of speaking and straight As and expectations and a future she would inevitably crumple under. What she wanted was to set herself on fire. She wanted to cut her knee ligaments so she would be forced to crawl on all fours. She wanted to reach into her throat and find her vocal cords and crush them, then let someone take her and break her and use her. Put an ice pick into her orbital socket if she had to. Fuck her up for good. Make the outside match the inside.”
― Andrew Joseph White, You Weren't Meant to Be Human

“Law enforcement would rather we remember a dull man as brilliant than take a good hard look at the role they played in this absolute sideshow, and I am sick to death of watching them in their pressed shirts and cowboy boots, in their comfortable leather interview chairs, in hugely successful and critically acclaimed crime documentaries, talking about the intelligence and charm and wiliness of an ordinary misogynist. This story is not that. The story is not that.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Nothing is harder to love about the natural world—or the human world—than its ceaseless brutality.”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year