Sublime

rebarbative

In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

I have kept my name because it is my name. I have kept my name because I like my name.

Be deliberate about how you engage with her and her appearance.

Their talking was like a river, always flowing, delirious

We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.

She was, quite simply, a nice lady who’d raised a family and now lived quietly with her cats and grew vegetables. This was both nothing and everything.

Who was she to want more, when she’d already taken so much?

We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something.