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“There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to the effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually. Even if her father did not read out loud these opinions, any girl could read them for herself.”

“How the borders of ignorance shrank back at their approach! Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.”

“If it’s boring then life out of you, it’s not your life.”

Phyllis Schlafly always at the scene of the crime

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure; afraid of rejection. But regret, is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to; what if?”

“When you write a novel, you are alone in it. I wrote that book alone; sitting in airports and coffee shops and lying in bed. But when writing, there is always for me, a hope that I will not be alone. Not in this work, and not in this world.”

“True intimacy is never having to wonder if someone is mad at you because the standard for the relationship is honesty.”

“We’re lured into a world of detachment from our bodies to increase the profit of companies that thrive off our self loathing. It’s an act of rebellion against the system when you become embodied; in harmony with your body. Nurturing it and accepting it in all of its seasons, cycles, and fluctuations. Because that means you don’t need to be younger, smaller, or different to have value.”