Sep 19, 2017
Shaving pubic hair. Accepting mother’s advice. Can a woman (or a horse) own her experience of the world?
To Surrender Our Bodies to the Appetites of Others
“When your husband is dying and your child is on the cusp of forming actual memories, nothing in the world makes sense.”
In fiction, one needs motivations, wants, and fears; one needs cause and effect. In life, it’s messier.
“My mother’s ‘whiteness’ is disputed, by brown and white people alike, and treated as something to interrogate.”
“A baby has two superpowers: the ability to suck productive time out of a day and the ability to bleed a wallet dry.”
