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“Allison, Jemima, Zosia—we will always be the girls, but now—are we the ladies?”

“a cramped gallery kitchen where, like Carrie Bradshaw, I filled the oven with shoes.”

You don’t like me anymore? I thought. But you made me.

Our whole culture values the potential of life more than the existence of it, and women as vessels for that life more than as sentient beings.

Never mistake maintenance for care, attention for love, or even love for empathy.

“What are you so fucking guilty about?” my father once asked. “Since you were five, you’ve been walking around like you killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

That’s the crux of it: Through it all, I always wanted to be a good girl.

As Nora said: Everything is copy.