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"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders
the best stories have love to cling to - friendship, family, romance - a duo at the core keeping you in orbit
‘Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life,
... See moreThe truth was, Greta only felt “normal” for one week out of every month. The week before her period: rage, lust, and what felt like clarity. The week of: cramping, fatigue, self-pity. The week after: mind-numbing depression. That left one week of feeling “okay” and “like herself,” but sometimes she wondered if it was the only week in which she
... See moreJen Beagin • Big Swiss
a woman’s mental health postmenopause is usually better than it’s been at any other time in the life of that particular woman, other than maybe childhood.” What. “Is that really true? Is it because our periods stop?” “Mm, it’s more that we aren’t cycling anymore between estrogen and progesterone and FSH. And, of course, in a patriarchy your body is
... See moreMiranda July • All Fours: A Novel
If you had hormonal constancy, as men did, you might not be taking your cues from your body about when to rest. You would have to build that in: Sunday is the day we don’t work, God’s day. But if what defined the days was you, your biological clock and calendar, then every day might as well be Tuesday. Perhaps you wanted to work for two weeks
... See moreMiranda July • All Fours: A Novel
“Tracking the survival and quality of these affectively dull yet persistent temporalities within what Elizabeth Povinelli describes as ‘the seams of capitalism’ has turned out to be the project of this book (2011). Staying, maintaining, repeating, delaying, enduring, waiting, recalling and remaining are forms of time’s suspension that tell us
... See moreFor most women between the ages of approximately ten years old to around fifty years old, our nature is cyclic. However, we are raised with the expectation of living and working and behaving like men. We are taught, unrealistically, to expect that the things that fulfil men and meet their needs will also make us happy and contented – and when we
... See moreMiranda Gray • Female Energy Awakening
The form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or
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