“You become a whole person even in your sadness,”— Tess Slesinger, from Time: The Present; “On Being Told that her Second Husband has Taken his first Lover,”
Praise this body
For nothing has killed it yet
Even my own two hands— Jill Khoury, from “Litany for Survival,” published in Inverted Syntax
(Source: invertedsyntax.com)
“But she felt rushed and anxious. There was something she needed to know and to experience, but she did not know what it was and had never known. And the time was somehow running out.”— Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights
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Me on the roof with a megaphone: when you’re a woman… horror feels like coming home
