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Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
2.75
“Being perceived is excruciating. Especially if you can’t go person to person explaining why you look like that. I’d go to a lot more stuff if I knew I could take each person aside and explain to them why I look and dress the way I do.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent
North Woods by Daniel Mason
4.0
“In any case, George didn’t shut up, and Mary, whose longing for precision and clarity extended even into language, thought that there really should be a word for this particular kind of explaining boys did to girls…”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Gore
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police.”
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.”
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.”
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
“Half my ancestors were women. Half my DNA is female. That is a biological fact. I am doing nothing but accentuating a heritage that is all my own. I have appropriated nothing.”
“The mark of matrimony puts women on the rails — that's why wedding dresses are followed by trains. There is a certain pride to be taken in us, sitting here, a sisterhood of squeaky wheels.”
“I am a human italic next to her and her boldness.”
“The mark of matrimony puts women on the rails — that's why wedding dresses are followed by trains. There is a certain pride to be taken in us, sitting here, a sisterhood of squeaky wheels.”
“I am a human italic next to her and her boldness.”