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“If her parents loved her,” Meiying said, “it would have felt like the end of the world.” It was such an eerily astute observation,
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
All of these prolific geniuses in devotional service to their craft were monsters . Writer Claire Dederer: “[t]he female writers I know yearn to be more monstrous. They say it in off-hand, ha-ha-ha ways: ‘I wish I had a wife.’ What does that mean, really? It means you wish to abandon the tasks of nurturing in order to perform the selfis
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every adult – who’d ever cudgeled a student with arbitrary, unearned power.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Its monstrous disregard for anything but the self.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
(She was, what, thirty-five? In that moment, I found her thrillingly jaded.)