Michelle’s Reviews > Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar > Status Update

“I would only be noticed for my intelligence, taught that climbing up in this world wasn’t supposed to resemble a physical trial. In this way, I learned to live outside my body.”

“She never thought much of her own creations - they were patchwork, practical, something for me to cloak my body with. But to me, putting on something my mother had crafter was like being enshrined. Those were my best days. Yes, my mother was always good at taking the scraps of life and turning them into something worthwhile.”

“You’re never too old to be afraid of what you can’t see. How scary it is to be in the dark of things.”

“Even babies know to appease the patriarch, to make it known that they are his.”