Don’t Forget to Write

by Sara Goodman Confino

And I didn’t understand how these men could claim to be attracted to the fact that I was free, then try to cage me.

“Always say yes to new things,” Ada said. “It’s the only way you’ll be able to write about life—if you actually go out and live it.”

You’re like a tiger. You might destroy me. And I kind of think that might be worth it.”

She was fierce and ferocious and feminine all at the same time.

A gilded cage is still a cage. Most people don’t see the bars that hold them.

live your life the way that you want to. Not the way society or anyone else tells you to. Because you only get this one chance.

the world loves to destroy things it doesn’t understand.