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“Over and over again as I talk with aging women who love about relationships, I hear us testify that the loneliness that may come with self actualization and self love is far preferable to the loneliness of being in a relationship where love is not present.”

“The greatest tragedy of marriage within patriarchal culture is not that so many couples divorce but that an even greater number of couples stay together without feeling that they love each other.”

The woman that you are, Lily King.

The words I’ve been looking for for 38 years. I owe bell hooks so much.

“She was extravagantly dressed and made up…. Walking next to her I felt embarrassment and also a sense of danger. It seemed to me that she was risking, not only gossip but ridicule, and that both reflected on me, a sort of colorless but loyal puppy who served as her escort.”

Might hold the record for most marked up book. Feminism’s final boss: heterosexual relationships.

I KNEW IT

Listening to this and loving it. It sounds like I’m going on a long walk with a friend and you’re talking all about your life.

lol 69

"but when she stepped foot in her apartment that first morning back, something felt off. it was as if she'd come home to her childhood bedroom or tried to drive the old sedan she had in college. They had been hers, yes. But they belonged to a version of her that she'd grown out of."

There's gotta be a French word for this. Feeling this so often is unsettling at best.

Finally getting into the grit of the allegory on motherhood, gender roles, marriage, and community.

The MLM scene is hilarious

Talk about a crash-bang beginning