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1 " The mention of minivans, white picket fences, T-ball practice — all of it made my labia shrivel up and collapse in on themselves. "
― Mara Altman , Baby Steps (Kindle Single)
2 " overpopulation problem as one good reason we should reconsider our willy-nilly tendency to procreate. That made sense. If you want to go green, but like really green, there’s no better way than to not create another consumer who will beget yet more consumers, until one day Target and Wal-Mart go extinct. Then again, having a kid might be good for Earth’s longevity; with more of them, we can destroy our environment a little more quickly, and eventually rid the planet of its human destroyers entirely. It’s a tough call. "
3 " And yet having this man — who’d first attracted my attention by declaring his hatred for pancakes — spray my eggs with his sperm didn’t seem like the absolute most horrible idea. By which I mean, I didn’t upturn the table, smash "
4 " The preceding five years, since that day at the beach, "