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“S: but you’re lying to them

N: it’s not a lie. It’s just also not the full truth

S: why don’t you give them the full truth

N: because they don’t want it”


Oh wow!!! This was a trip. I’m not sure I’m a fan of how things tied up in the end. However this was a strong debut 🥰

“Everything they had to succeed was already inside them but also they needed to pay this woman in order to succeed.”


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“America hates women. What a comfort to remember.”

‼️ I’m not even going to hate. Give Ms. Cari Burke her things. She did that!

This is a strong debut and it does what it needed to do as a satire.

Folks who are disappointed in this might be because of the hype that came. Was the hype worth it? NO.

That doesn’t reduce it from being a strong novel objectively 🥰

“Things feel different because it’s dark and you’re afraid. And everything feels different in the dark when you’re afraid.“

As I read this I keep finding Natalie our main character so unbelievable but now I get it - Natalie is the amalgamation of everything that is wrong with us.

The things she does and says are so absurd yet familiar.

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“Please give my husband a spine. I’m tired of him needing to borrow mine.”

🤣😆🤣

“But motherhood is its own kind of curation.

Which is to say every woman I know lied to me about what it would be like before I became one myself. “

“People think they want minimalism. They think they want a house absent of stuff. When in fact a perfectly uncluttered home makes them want to kill themselves.

A space must always look lived in for someone to want to live in it. This is a completely obvious notion when you take a moment to really think about it. But most people don’t take a moment to think about any thing.

Most people are morons”

LMAO!🤣

“Thank you for watching over the farm animals lord and thank you for helping us pass 5 million on Instagram this week . . . “


LMAO!!! I’m sat. I love a good satire 🤣😭