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“I want you to know: never before in the history of women, magical or not, have they been more empowered, more in touch with profound universal forces, more capable of summoning by whatever means necessary that which is essential to their evolution and fulfillment.”

Women Feminism Female Rage

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“La humanidad y todo lo que comportaba se le antojaba excesiva.”

Humanity Existentialism Overwhelmed Detachment Discomfort

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“Con lo fácil que sería tener los dos ojos morados o una enfermedad que pudiera definirse fácilmente, una herida, un hueso roto... cualquier cosa que pudiera ser vista y comprendida.”

Pain Struggle Recognition Validation Invisibility

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“Vigilas el fuego porque si no lo haces estás atrapada, muerta de frío, sola, y no te queda otra que abrigarte, ser práctica, aceptar que esto es lo que hay, acostumbrarte y ser comprensiva y sensata y estar de acuerdo y verlo desde otro punto de vista y verlo desde todos los puntos de vista posibles menos el tuyo propio.”

Loneliness Adaptation Mental Load Emotional Survival Self Erasure

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“(...) les tenía mucho cariño, y a sus padres les daba absolutamente igualm y fue de esta manera como descubrió que los separaba un terrible abismo inabarcable.”

Family Loneliness Neglect Disconnection Emotional Distance

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“Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?”

Birth Anger Motherhood Rage Pregnancy Babies

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“¿Tenía ella la culpa de haberse tragado el muy generalizado mito social de que si una mujer joven recibía una formación de primera podría entonces librarse de las ataduras históricas de la maternidad?”

Freedom Education Expectations Motherhood Myth

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“Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman.”

Independence Parenting Possession Motherhood Secrets

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“Era como si las madres se quedaran mirando fijamente algo que ni tan siquiera eran capaces de recordar. ¿Qué era...?”

Longing Memory Emptiness Mothers Love Disconnection

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“¿Tenía ella la culpa de que su marido ganara más? ¿De que fuera más lógico que ella, y no él, dejara su trabajo? (...) ¿De que ansiara tener el más insignificante amago de estímulo mental, poder regresar a sus pilas de libros, a su desamparado armario de proyectos a medias, a una tarde entera de soledad y silencio?”

Sacrifice Gender Roles Wage Gap Mental Stimulation Unfulfilled Life

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“Ella se había titulado en una universidad muy renombrada; mucho mejor que a la que había ido él. Ella se había sacado dos másteres; mientras que él, ninguno (ni tampoco se había sacado un bebé del cuerpo). Aquello no era un concurso, ¿no? No, pues claro que no.”

Competition Motherhood Inequality Gender Roles Academia

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“Nightbitch herself explained that her work was meant to underscore the brutality of motherhood, how a child’s first act is violence against the woman who created it. Yet the mother loves the child with the most powerful love known in this universe”

Feminism Motherhood Female Rage Nightbitch

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“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control the exchange of ideas, the evolution of society? She had never really been all that interested in traditional success or power, but for a moment she saw the appeal of it, of an empire ruled only by women, and then the appeal of wielding might that could bring it all down, on a whim. An entire ruined kingdom as manifestation of one woman’s rage.”

Feminism Women S Fiction Women S Liberation Female Friendship Female Sexuality Feminine Rage

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“You light a fire early in your girlhood. You stoke it and tend it. You protect it at all costs. You don't let it rage into a mountain of light, because that's not becoming of a girl. You keep it secret. You let it burn. You look into the eyes of other girls and see their fires flickering there, offer conspiratorial nods, never speak aloud a near-unbearable heat, a growing conflagration. You tend the flame because if you don't you're stuck, in the cold, on your own, doomed to 'seasonal layers', doomed to 'practicality', doomed to 'this is just the way things are', doomed to 'settling' and 'understanding' and 'reasoning' and 'agreeing' and 'seeing it another way' and 'seeing it his way' and 'seeing it from all the other ways but your own'.”

Feminism Female Rage Nightbitch

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“It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her childhood meant she had survived it.”

Childhood Childhood Memory

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