Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Perhaps because if everything stopped she might have to confront the truth about herself.
Louise Erdrich • The Mighty Red: A Novel
She saw herself as a charming street urchin, a pet for wealthy mothers.
Miranda July • No One Belongs Here More Than You
When I grew up, the idea of the “global village” was an abstraction. My daughter lives something concrete. Emotionally, socially, wherever she goes, she never leaves home.
Sherry Turkle • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
But take that kitchen, for instance! Maud Martha, taking it, saw herself there, up and down her seventeen years, eating apples after school; making sweet potato tarts; drawing, on the pathetic table, the horse that won her the sixth-grade prize; getting her hair curled for her first party, at that stove; washing dishes by summer twilight, with the
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
For so long, she could see now, she had made her daughter live by her whim: moving on anytime she needed new ideas; anytime she had felt stuck or uneasy.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
The dreams and the fears into which Martha Stewart taps are not of “feminine” domesticity but of female power, of the woman who sits down at the table with the men and, still in her apron, walks away with the chips.