Bright Precious Thing Quotes

“Give me back what should already be mine. Give me the dark, the freedom of the streets, the right to walk wherever I want, unafraid of rape or assault or just being messed with. The stars belong to me as much as you. Move over. Make room on the bench.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir

“she made me laugh like I hadn’t laughed in a long time. We were like puppies playing together on the beach. I thought,”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing

“You got sober. You started work at the Globe. You started therapy. You got Clementine” (my first Samoyed). Here she gave me the side-eye and smiled. “And me, I might add.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing

“Long before I’d read a word of Virginia Woolf, I knew that, for me, a room of one’s own was the ultimate prize. That a lock on the door was the power to think for oneself.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing

“The struggle was hard-won, especially when the worst demons in the room were mine.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir

“The lessons of those days were so basic: To view other women as allies rather than the competition. To unleash our intelligence, liberate our bodies, assume we were capable of things previously denied or unconsidered.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir

“All of us had been trained to take less than her share at the table, and some of us even hated and feared each other because that's what pressure from above teaches and forces and underclass to do.”
― Gail Caldwell, Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir