Jim

“People assigned genders based on behaviors and work roles, often ignoring anatomy. Gender was a form of social recognition.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it’s an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that’s why you kill the thing you love, because it’s your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will kill your weakness before it kills you.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“The lines of her tears sparkled on her cheeks. "I am a prisoner here," she said. I took the chair across from her and watched her cry. I sat upright, one hand on the table's surface and the other around my drink. I felt the ecstasy of a dancer, but I kept still.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden