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“Now I know I’ll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I’m finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else’s pain, feel someone else’s everything.
And he’s my baby, so everything’s okay.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

tags: kristin-hersh, motherhood, parenting, rat-girl

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“We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

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“No pervs allowed in the Oval Office,” Donald said. “I didn’t make the rules.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

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“His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

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“I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bridge to Holy Cross

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