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 moment is not pain, not hysteria, not crying. It is your insides turning to cold stones. It is utter confusion paired with knowing. Gone is the luxury of growing up slowly. So begins the brutal awakening.”
― Know My Name: A Memoir
― Know My Name: A Memoir
“Good grief, no one could cope with being newly infatuated, year after year. When you’re infatuated you can’t think about anything else, you forget about your friends, your work, your lunch. If we were infatuated all the time we’d starve to death.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“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
“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
“She does not have to wait for a man to find himself or his courage.”
― These Ghosts are Family
― These Ghosts are Family
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