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“‘One of these days,’ she said, ‘I’m going to pull myself together for a while and think—try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don’t know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can’t convince myself that I am. I must think about it.’”

“‘Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my hand against some hard door to call myself back to the body.’”

“Sometimes I became quite clearly aware of my predicament, and of the demands of that world, but I wasn’t capable of breaking out of the stupid way of life. The boredom that often afflicted me was the boredom of a respectable rose-grower at a motorcar manufacturers’ congress.”

this is like…..so good…wtf….whats going on….idk…

“I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.”

“Of the mongoose, he observed, ‘Monsieur Linnaeus made it first a badger, then he made it a ferret…others make it an otter, and others a rat; I cite these ideas…to put people on guard against these appellations that they call generic, and which are almost all false, or at least arbitrary, vague, and equivocal.’”

thinking about how everything is literally just made up by some man makes my brain explode

“To build neat boxes, nested or otherwise, was to ‘make suppositions which are always contrary to Nature, to strip the subject of most of its qualities, and to create an abstract being that has no resemblance to the real being.’”

“Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing.”

very very very good so far. i got this at the library bc i just updated my card info and went to the library for the first time in forever 😛 highly recommend it feels very nostalgic and obvi #savelibraries

“Maybe it was only natural? Surely it wasn’t such a big deal? Oh, József! Why did it always turn out like this for you. Why couldn’t you sit with your own feelings without starting to defend everyone else in your mind.”

“It was as if they dug into each other, body and mind, hungrily, selfishly they stood there, each with a shovel, digging and digging—let me come deeper inside, let me merge with you.”

“How forgiving it is to blend into a crowd. There is always someone weirder than you, always someone feeling worse. Hundreds of people who are different from you, hundreds you agree with.”

“‘Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to any woman he may happen to like himself.’”

“‘Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback.’”

“‘We have all been more or less to blame,’ said he, ‘every one of us, excepting Fanny. Fanny is the only one who has judged rightly throughout, who has been consistent. Her feelings have been steadily against it from first to last. She never ceased to think of what was due to you. You will find Fanny every thing you could wish.’”

“‘Give me your approbation, then, Fanny. I am not comfortable without it….If you are against me, I ought to distrust myself….’”

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“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

“Perhaps he simply had a talent for unhappiness, as others had a talent for making money. Or perhaps he was trying to destroy himself in order to prove to me that I was destructive.”

“I would begin, but my voice would sound false, even to myself. I’d always found other people’s versions of reality very influential and I was beginning to think that maybe he was right, maybe I did have a secret lover. I certainly began to want one….”

crazy bro

“Of course I started oozing right away. I hated being falsely accused. I hated being accused accurately too, but injustice was worse.”

i’m loving this diva

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“I told them their bodies are not foul nor sinful; these are bold calumnies advanced to deny the power of our wombs. The blood we shed is the source of all life: it is holy, not unclean.”

“He tells us that naming is Creation. He names and it is so. He breathes and gives it life. It’s why Adam loves to name things too. Naming is to man what birthing is to woman. They can name things all they like, it does not change the truth. Life comes from a Mother. He cannot fool me as He has deceived Adam!”

“Rainie doesn’t believe in them anyway, and she tells me she has a new definition for dreams. Dreams are like straws: You suck the day through them, sip it into your mind, and when you’re done you discard it.”

“I cling like a flea to her back, content to sip and be full of her blood. If I do nothing else with this life, carrying my mother’s blood is enough.”

“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”

i can’t believe i thought this was going to be boring it’s so good so far