Madeleine George

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Elana Dykewomon, Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”
― John Morley (Viscount Morley)

“If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“When I’d transferred to the Episcopalian school in sixth grade, I’d found irresistible the idea of a God who loved me unfailingly, scars and all. Here was a man who would never leave, I thought. Someone whom I would never disappoint. Later, I would fall away from the church when the rigidity of the doctrine and hypocrisy of some of the most devout Christian students I went to school with became apparent to me. In the end, I realized sometimes some people were forsaken.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir