“I feel pathetic. No man would have fled town with a prospective editorship on the table. It wasn’t so much the job itself that scared me as New York. I could be eaten alive in a place where I don’t know anybody or know where the alliances are.”
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We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
“this is a man’s lot. And what did I get? An embarrassment of daughters. A shame of sisters…Did they serve lunch politely and tirelessly? Did they both show modesty and dignity?"
The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic
"When it comes to pleasure, our political forces run the gamut from indifference to outright hostility, either ignoring any interest in feeling good or writing off pleasure as immoral, hedonistic, even lazy”