

“You’re supposed to want kale and fat-free dressing, but not the candied pecans, and if you bring a plateful of taboo foods to the table, you’ll be judged. So you preemptively deny yourself the things that bring you pleasure.”
― Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
― Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

“We daughters have a tendency to see in our mother’s mistakes the source of all our problems, and our mothers tend to consider our defects as proof of a possible failure.”
― Still Born
― Still Born

“It is easy, when we are young, to have ideals and to live according to them. What is more complicated is acting consistently over time, and in spite of the challenges life puts in our way.”
― Still Born
― Still Born

“You know what your problem is? It’s that you’re too busy worrying about what other people think of you to work out what you think of them.”
― A Very Nice Girl
― A Very Nice Girl

“It was only at the moment of death that they admitted their despair and rushed headlong towards the great, dark doors that I opened for them, leaving the sterile plain where their lives had gone awry without a backward glance, eager to embrace another world which perhaps didn’t exist, but they preferred nothingness to the futile succession of empty days.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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