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Thus understanding, strictly speaking, has been denied to woman; and instinct, sublimated into wit and cunning, for the purposes of life, has been substituted in its stead.
“There's something about being told you're worthy from another person that feels better than when you tell yourself in a mirror.”
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Crewe Train
― Crewe Train
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to.”
― Rage the Night
― Rage the Night
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