Status Updates From Her Body and Other Parties

“The things she says are disjointed, but familiar; Benson recognizes a quote from “Moby-Dick”, and another from “The Price of Salt”. They put the girl in a foster home, where she continues to express her grief and lamentations through everyone else’s words.”

“In the tangle of branches, baby birds – the gray and pink of half cooked shrimp and with bones like dried spaghetti – scream for their mothers.”

Finished "Real Women Have Bodies"

just finished ‘the husband stitch.’
damn. that’s kinda as much as i think i can say really.
very real representation of what it is to be a woman in a heterosexual relationship in these days and just under the patriarchy as a whole, too. intense

No sé si esto es una genialidad o un deliro. O las dos cosas.

вау

“I am up for a long time listening to his breathing, wondering if perhaps men have ribbons that do not look like ribbons. Maybe we marked in some way, even if it’s impossible to see.”

“As a grown woman, I would have said to my father that there are true things in this world observed only by a single set of eyes. As a girl, I consented to his account of the story, and laughed when he scooped me from the chair to kiss me and send me on my way.”

“gos should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men.”
- Elisabeth Hewer