“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.”
― Moranthology
― Moranthology
“Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.”
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
“We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
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