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Bright Young Women

Book by Jessica Knoll · 6 quotes · Grief, Children, Feminism

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“Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite poets, a woman named Donna Carnes, whose husband went out to sail in San Francisco Bay and had not been seen since. I love it too. How many parties have I gone to over the years, and laughed, and had a good time, while still managing to hold Denise close?”

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“Impossible grief applies to cases where the grief-processing mechanism has been obstructed, like a clog in a drain.”

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“Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that.”

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“Like all children, he was too young to take care of himself but capable of extreme emotional destruction.”

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“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”

Feminism Toxic Masculinity

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“He was nearing his final act in life, and he did not want to be alone at the end. In turn, he would offer Tina what no man her age could. With tears in his eyes, he told Tina and her family she could do whatever she wanted with her life. Go to Radcliffe, if it called to her, and live anywhere in the world. She taught about the barn that Ed bought Deb after high school, and she felt ill because she understood how it was Deb was so miserable doing whatever she wanted with her life too.”

Grooming Sexual Predator

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