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“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them.”
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“Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss.”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.”
― Nervous Conditions
― Nervous Conditions
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