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Dont you think thats its a disease of the contemporary age? Its feels like these days our value is determined by how much effort we make on a daily basis.

Everyone is suffering because they’re trying to rail against the natural order of things. - Kajii

Men putting on weight is different from woman putting on weight though - such an ass

True taste came with a high price tag, and a high calorie count to match.

She was sickened to core by the idea that housework must be a woman’s job.

And yet, Kajii had given herself permission. Ignoring other people’s yardsticks, she decided that she was enough as a woman. To be treated well, to be adored, to be showered with presents and affection, and to eschew that which she disliked, including work and group socializing.

But sitting on the sofa, she found herself losing any sense of urgency. - relatable

I think the moral is that you shouldn’t let you vanity make you so competitive that you’re driven to self destruction.

“How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always - regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality - so you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.”

—that Joan did not know why everyone was so goddamn happy all the time until she met her.

The surrender had not always been easy—-it had shocked Joan just how much physical pain there was in loving someone like this.

“Its hard to pick up the phone sometimes when I’m mad. And that doest come from nowhere - I got it from her.”

Im a mom but im not sure im on Barbara’s side —- or am I judgmental???

The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.

“Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying.”

All Joan could think was that it was now just two people cutting off parts of themselves to make themselves fit together. - Joan on marriage

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”

Joan found a familiar peace in going unnoticed

“We need to be brave enough to sit with the madness, to hold it. Instead of trying to lock it up.”