Michele’s Reviews > The Women Could Fly > Status Update

“I didn’t tell him I had sat with the tangle of it, needing and wanting and loving, and didn’t know if it was ever possible to be fully certain if I loved him as long as my safety was based on him.”

“…spend your life worrying because it feels like every day someone with power is doing something to take things from you for no good reason except for them keeping their power, it’s hard to build a community. You can’t even think about changing anything because by the time you’re a woman in your 20s, unless you’re very lucky, you most likely are only thinking about how to survive.”

“.everything was simultaneously right and wrong. Like with witches.We still thought of them as something taboo, criminal, bad, but there was a weird space where because of capitalism, they were still everywhere because they made money ..capitalism allowed anything to exist as long as someone could exploit it for money and power.And those things seem to make room only for loneliness when it came to most people.”

“No one could tell me why it happened. When I asked one woman, she asked me why I wanted to ruin it. The pleasure of life was sometimes learning to enjoy things as they are, rather than asking why.”

“…and wondered if I should just buy a new SAD lamp, an expensive quilt, and whether those things could help me start having a new, better life.”

“Beyond everything else – society, anxiety, money – maybe it was hard for me to find a path out in the world because the only thing I loved was creating….But here, all these women were dabbling. The emphasis was on learning and making, not being famous or rich or special. Seeing that, it was easy to feel infatuated. I understood what it meant to feel at home.”