Grethe’s Reviews > The girls who grew big > Status Update

”I thought it would be a girl, couldn’t imagine anything but a girl, wondered whether that girl, at fifteen, would learn the precise method of measuring the area of a circle or what it felt like when you realized, mid-fuck, a grown man was inside you and you’d welcomed him to be there.”

”Healthy? Baby, life’s not all about whole grains and calories. I see how you treat yourself, tryna get ready for all your little swim competitions, making sure you’re all lean, and I respect that, I do. But don’t you go around thinking you better than us ‘cause you’d rather eat some lettuce than something that fills you up, something your body knows as well as the womb it came from.

”They taught me family could be something tender and loud and boundless.”