Amy

“Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs—it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!” She inhaled so I inhaled, too. “The trauma itself prepares them for the next phase, life on Earth.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“A lot of women destroy their lives in their forties and then one day they wake up with no periods and no partner and only themselves to blame”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Nobody knows what's going on. We are thrown across our lives by winds that started blowing millions of years ago.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!