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“It feels as if I was born with the endless souls of generations of tipsy, provocative, women inside me.”
― Lena Dunham, Famesick

“Never mistake maintenance for care, attention for love, or even love for empathy.”
― Lena Dunham, Famesick

“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to be happy. I like so much to live and I hate the idea of dying one day. And then I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life, I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, and to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren