Quotations (22)

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“… Wind Gap, a town that demands utmost femininity in its fairer sex…”
“I don't know that anything would be any good anywhere, so it’s hard to gauge if this is better or worse, you know what I mean?” “Like: this place is miserable and I want to die, but I can’t think of anyplace I’d rather be.” “That’s…
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
"I was already tired of talking, and I'd said very little."
"Sometimes it *is* all too loud."
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“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
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“Bear gifts if you can’t bear anything else.”
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“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
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“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
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“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
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“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I…
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"Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”
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“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever,…
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“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase 'got what she deserved.' Sometimes women do.”
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"I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, 'the Duchess,' who recorded the smallest offenses in a little…
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“Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother."
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“Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon?”
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“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
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“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
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“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone…
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“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma’s sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and…