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“Praise the lives you did not choose. They will heal you, tell your story, fight for you. You eat the bread of their labor. You drink the wine of their joy.”

— Marge Piercy, The Sabbath of Mutual Respect

She said it wasn’t a matter of choosing one life over another, but of being sensitive to the life that wants to be lived through you.

Sheila Heti, Motherhood

In the fall I learned your voice/

In the winter, your body/

In the spring I’ll see your home/

The place and people that made you/

The most beautiful thing

But in fact I didn't want to cool down: what I desired was to live the moment until I wore it out.

Clarice Lispector "Interrupted Story"

a woman who explores the depths of her despair or depression isn’t typically valorized as a hero on a fearless quest to render ‘any darkness visible,’ but is instead perceived as a redundant example of female vulnerability, fragility, or self-destructiveness.

Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty