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“This feels to her what separates her universe and Shaun’s–a tree made by the hand of nature, and a tree made by the hand of an artist. It’s barely any difference at all, and the profoundest difference in the world.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“It’s so obvious now: people show most of who they are up front. It just takes someone to really watch.”
― Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

“Those two mattresses pushed together formed our raft: we were alone in the world, in the middle of an imaginary ocean.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“In return he offered up the saga of his dating life, the invisible oppression of being a narrow-shouldered man under patriarchy.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“Now why am I rehashing years-old Twitter wank? Because, first and most importantly, lol.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection

“Unfortunately, my husband trusts me.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“She had the power of all of it, the tree, the river, the hooves, the sky, the blood, the womb, the gallop, the dirt, the birthing, the dying.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers

“Prayer to the White God: Mother-God-of-the-wandering-womb / I open myself to thee / I surrender to thee my skull of milk / My purity / My teeth / My hunger / I open myself to thee / I surrender to thee my fears / I make a temple with thee and with horror / I open myself to thee / I surrender to thee my blood and that of my sisters / Together we will worship your incarnate jawbone / I open myself to thee / Dripping / Splattering / My desires / My anxieties / I open myself to thee / White God / To the forbidden / To thy stain / I open myself to thee.”
― Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

“Daughters cannibalize their mothers, Becerra, milk to bone.”
― Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

“home is where they clip your wings”
― Rene Karabash, She Who Remains

“And in this moment that the two women feel immortality, they’ve discovered joy and in this joy there is love, and in the center of this love is the immeasurable, that, which is eternal, that, which cannot be called by name.”
― Rene Karabash, She Who Remains

“There was a horse that gave birth. There was a baby. There was a tree. There was a price.”
― Leslie J. Anderson, The Unmothers