Sublime

Little girls, she argued, were worth nothing more than the medals they could win, so they were starved, abused, and used to keep their bodies and skills perfect—like “pretty boxes.”

aberration

She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.

Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,