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Alanis Morissette
“To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

-"Sorry to Myself”
Alanis Morissette, Under Rug Swept

Anna Funder
“Kay saw clearly the cost to Eileen of her decision. ‘I thought it was rather tragic that she should give it all up,’ she said about her degree and career. ‘I don’t think I would have.”
Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

“I killed a plant once because I gave / it too much water. Lord, I worry / that love is violence.”
José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

Anna Funder
“Access to time, as to any other valuable good, is gendered. One person’s time to work is created by another person’s work in time: the more time he has to work, the more she is working to make it for him.”
Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

Anna Funder
“So many women I know feel the same, but we talk about it sotto voce. We avoid conflict, thinking instead that each of us has failed, individually, to fix her life properly, and under the righteous resentment there’s a shame that keeps our voices down. I pretend I am equal while I am: walking the dog/doing the grocery shopping/waiting in the orthodontist’s/commiserating about mean teens/folding laundry. I pretend I am equal when I am chopping vegetables/organising the counsellor or the hospital or the solicitor/de-griming the fridge. Actually, I mind none of it. This is my real life, with my real loves. I know that when I’m old I’ll envy my younger self her busyness, her purpose, her big-hearted whirligig life. But still, the distribution of labour is hard to make equal, because so much of it is hard to see, wrapped up in the definition of what it is to be me. Pretending I am not subject to modern versions of the same forces Eileen was, by ‘practising acceptance’ or ‘just getting on with it’, is a kind of lived insanity: to pretend to be liberated from the work while doing it.”
Anna Funder, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

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