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21 " You don’t have to give up something you love just because other people disapprove "
― Tarryn Fisher , The Wives
22 " Somehow, the messy lives of reality stars make me feel better about my own. There is something dull and vapid about the plastic-looking women on those shows, despite their Fame and Fortune - no matter if they deserve it or not. There is something hopeful about that for the rest of us. We're all fucked up, every single one of us, I think. "
23 " We're all just waiting for someone to stand behind us, aren't we? Even if it's just one person, it gives us strength. "
24 " Maybe all American families play the togetherness game—the one where you talk about sports and dine on casseroles (in the Pacific Northwest, it’s gluten-free and organic), fight about politics and act like you have meaningful relationships when you’re actually dying of loneliness. "
25 " busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us. I feel better knowing I’m not alone, that the whole world is as fragile and lonely as I am. "
26 " But now I see the truth: women are stuck in a cycle of insecurity perpetuated by the way men treat them, and we are constantly fighting to prove to ourselves and everyone else that we are okay. "
27 " I remember thinking how fragile we were as humans, souls covered in tender flesh and brittle bone; one wrong step and we became someone else entirely. "
28 " Seth is not supposed to drink wine; he doesn’t with the others. Religious reasons. "
29 " The doctor is teaching me to cope with my shame, to deal with it. "Make decisions you can live with..." he says to me. "