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“Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter.”
― The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
― The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

“She feels as if a book is writing itself just behind her; all she has to do is live. But there is nothing.”
― Les Années
― Les Années

“We scribbled down writers’ reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, ‘existence is to drink oneself without thirst.’ We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.”
― Les Années
― Les Années

“He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar.”
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
― My Sister, the Serial Killer

“They’re on a pedestal from the second they’re born, only they don’t realize it. Whenever they need something, their moms come running. They’re taught to believe that their penises make them superior, and that women are just there for them to use as they see fit. Then they go out into the world, where everything centers around them and their dicks. And it’s women who have to make it work. At the end of the day, where is this pain that men feel coming from? In their opinion: us. It’s all our fault—whether they’re unpopular, broke, jobless. Whatever it is, they blame women for all of their failures, all their problems. Now think about women. No matter how you see it, who’s actually responsible for the majority of the pain women feel? If you think about it that way, how could a man and a woman ever see eye to eye? It’s structurally impossible.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs

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