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Her temperament was distinctly familial to me. She could be me, if I could unzip my skin and release all my fury. If Erin brought out the intellect in me (and my petty envy), Helen brought out what was raw in me.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
She was fascinated with women who martyred themselves. But then, to look at it a different way, she was fascinated with women who gave themselves over to revolutions.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
a girl—and then a woman—ruled by hungers large and small.
Anne Zimmerman • An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher
Even now, at seventeen—high school graduate, mistress of her fate, and a ten-dollar-a-week file clerk in the very Forty-seventh Street lawyer’s office where Helen was a fifteen-dollar-a-week typist—as she sat on Helen’s bed and watched Helen primp for a party, the memory hurt. There was no consolation in the thought that not now and not then would
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
Parks was brave for being the hero of her story, but heroic for being one of its authors.
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
the arrogance of belonging.)