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“We can acknowledge the “click” we feel when we meet someone new as just that - a mysterious sense of connection that may or may not have anything to do with love.”

“Loneliness is painful, solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community.”

Oft that opening paragraph, like it already

“Perhaps being in community isn’t as much about creating a utopia as it is about allowing space for complexity and celebrating those meeting places”

Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously - Prentis Hemphill

That chapter had more drama than a real housewives reunion.

My jaw literally dropped

Gagged

This is book is making me feral. Catch me wearing pixie ears and fangs.

O.M.G.

“With hindsight, I can see I demanded of my partner that he give more emotionally because I did not understand what I understand now, which is the reality that he did not have more to give.”

As female in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing - yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves.

The best antidote to prejudice is education.

“Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart”

“I came to see that the crux of this kind of receiving was to distinguish between what we want and what we don’t mind. In order to do that, we have to learn that there is in fact something we want and that it matters”.

“Attending a Catholic school had taught me a bit about religion, and a lot about authority”

“My fingers transcribed independently of my mind, and my typing was soft and persistent, like rain”.

“The answer for much of history was derived from religion. We know because God says so, and God has moral authority. Even our suggestions today - murder, cheating, stealing - those first few all derive from the Ten Commandments. But in a secular world, where do we derive moral authority? Are morals just socially constructed or are there universal standards that exist independently of social mores?”

“We hated each other energetically”

By giving the absolute meaning and a sanctimonious value to the generic term ‘woman’s role’, functionalism put American women into a kind of deep freeze - like Sleeping Beauties, waiting for a Prince Charming to waken them, while all around the magic circle the world moved on.