Gravity Is The Thing

by Jaclyn Moriarty

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Popular self-help teaches you to ask for help, accept help, set boundaries, say no. So you ask for help and the person you ask politely refuses. Because he or she has learned to set boundaries and say no.

Maybe, by a certain age, we have all encountered some impossible loss, or at least the accumulation of small sufferings.

Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it’s knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.