Graceful Burdens Quotes

“Many unlicensed women took to other women because they had no need to put up with men. Seraphina envied them that, too.”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens

“He was not interesting enough to inspire her anger”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens

“The girl she had been worried about the tone of her voice and the manner of her words. The woman she had become had no need for such affectations.”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens

“She would grow into a handsome woman, the kind who resented being told she was handsome because she understood that to be handsome was to be not pretty and to be not pretty was to be invisible”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens