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“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?”
― Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm

“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The idea of making images of a uterus that had nothing in it struck me as sad, like photographing an abandoned house.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends