Middlesex
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Read between October 17 - November 3, 2024
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It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.
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and everything else I used in a losing battle to make myself beautiful.
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I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public.
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There was nowhere to go that wouldn’t be me.