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She smelled right. It was like an echo, of a voice you can’t quite hear.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always; too-small lives into which women can be lured or pushed.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
when girls and women who were tightly girdled, tightly reined, and tightly muzzled were called “nice,”
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
which presents words and books to us cut off from the living people who created them,
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
She smelled like a floral guest soap in a strange house I was visiting.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
But without a name, things get lost. The image, however, is clear.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
the one about the girl with moonlight in her eyes.
Laura Lippman • Wilde Lake
Most of the time, we do not have the aid of a rhyme to call our attention to the ways we sound exactly like those whom we hate the most.