Ebony Casagrande
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Ebony Casagrande
you’re petrified you haven’t changed, but why do you need to change so drastically? you change every day. you wake and you’re one person, and when you go to sleep, you’re somebody else. you don’t know who you are most of the time3, and maybe you don’t need to.
DART1301 Tutorial Notes
docs.google.com“you are trained to be docile, subservient, dependent and most important to sacrifice yourself and even to get pleasure from it. If you don’t like it, it is your problem, your failure, your guilt, your abnormality.” This is changing my brain chemistry — SILVIA FEDERICI
In his room, she fights his waning interest. Her sense that he is sliding away even when he is right there, as much of him touching her as possible, makes her worry she is losing her mind.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
He does not understand that he cannot understand, that the loves of others are unfathomable.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
The hips are her mother’s fault, genetically speaking, and are resented as such, as though she had conceived Chloe as part of an elaborate plan to cultivate her dancing and then, via anatomical time bomb, sabotage it.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
Reminds me of the period when Mothers were responsible for the success of the child, and viewed ultimately as complete failures at this duty. No child was ever perfect enough to let a Mother off.
