Francine
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Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to
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“This collection reveals a universal truth: there’s nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.”
― Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
― Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
“Elisabeth wished she had the guts to say, Like there are still women who, when their husband is in charge of the kids, will say he’s babysitting.”
― Friends and Strangers
― Friends and Strangers
“Because the people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“I want money and a house with a pool and a partner who loves me and my own lab filled with only the most brilliant and strong women. I want a dog and a Nobel Prize and to find a cure to addiction and depression and everything else that ails us. I want everything and I want to want less.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Medicine is an inexact science, but psychiatry is particularly so. There is no blood test, no genetic marker to determine beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone is schizophrenic, and schizophrenia itself is nothing more or less than a constellation of symptoms that have frequently been observed as occurring in tandem. Observing patterns and giving them names is helpful mostly if those patterns can speak to a common cause or, better yet, a common treatment or cure.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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