Status Updates From The Power Notebooks: aantek...

Feels like it fits perfectly with recent reads of Motherhood and After Birth. A little self indulgent but I’ve been enjoying this style of self centered who I am in relation to society reflective writing. She has shared some great quotes so far - or great to me bc they feel pretty relevant. Will be a quick read

I’m devouring this. Incredible.

“Rebecca West: ‘Since men don’t love us nearly as much as we love them that leaves them a lot more spare vitality to be wonderful with.’”

“Virginia Woolf on economic independence: ‘What a change of temper a fixed income will bring about….I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.’”

“Of course, right behind the fear that I can’t manage on my own is another more terrifying fear: that I can. I am not looking. I am not happy or unhappy. It is like a peace treaty has been signed without my realizing it. The restlessness a former version of myself would have felt has been pushed away, repurposed into efficiency. It is an intoxicating feeling, not needing anyone, but also isolating in itself.”

I am loving this book. Every page is quotable. “D and I are convalescing. I’m getting over my eight years with H and the collapse of our marriage; D is getting over a girlfriend he was with for a little while. What we both need is an old-fashioned sanatorium in the Alps with wicker chaise lounges and nurses serving us iced tea and cold mountain air. What we have is each other.”