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“Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it’s like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories

“Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“I should have smashed those spectacles to glass so fine he would never not remember how I ruined his vision - decisive, quick, imperative - and wrecked that world of his own making, its heroes, its scholars, it founding members, generals, politicians, row after row after row after row of men and not real and not true for me, for me, not how I was, or what I saw and thought. Not anything. I could have; I should have; I did not.

But I was fifteen. I could no more have formed those words, those thoughts, than flown to the moon.”
― Kate Walbert, His Favorites

“Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It’s your life. Let’s have a martini.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women: Stories