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“Place is of consequence only to the extent that it encourages or demands the confrontation of the self by the self, which is solitude's true vocation.”
― Sue Halpern, Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

“Smile, sweetheart” is an ostensibly less offensive remark, but it is expressive of the same insidious demand that a woman’s face be emotionally legible.”
― Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

“Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise.”
― Sue Halpern, Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure … She didn’t understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian