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It seemed like my nuclear family would be the only place I was truly safe and understood, and then my parents would die and I’d be in my fifties, living among my mother’s dusty cut-price Manolo flats like it was a museum in her honor.
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“I was too irritable from the drive to go straight into the D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum and Gift Shop so I ordered a calming cup of tea in the White Peacock Cafe.
'Mug or cup?'
'Cup please,' I said, thinking that I could have said 'I said "cup".' I said cup because I have never enjoyed tea from a mug - and for that matter, only rarely from a cup. Basically I don't like tea but what else is there? Life is really no more than a search for a hot drink one likes.”
Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

“I often observed that at times women were invisible to men, who looked right through you as though you weren't there.”
Katherine Graham, Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Memoir

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“Being forced into helplessness by one other person is terrible," she says, "but being humiliated in front of a crowd...I dont want to say that it's worse, but it is different. It's severely dehumanizing, especially for a child.”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

Sally Rooney
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Unfortunately, this incapacity often produced in women--as it did in me--a diffuse way of talking, an inability to be concise, a tendency to ramble, to start at the end and work backwards, to overexplain, to go on for too long, to apologize.”
Katherine Graham, Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Memoir

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