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Joy Sullivan, from “Sad Lovers”, Instructions for Traveling West

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girl shocked to discover that inaction can have consequences too

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Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

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Sometimes I do have desires that disgust me. But I have other problems

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— Louise Glück, "The Burning Heart"

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~ via mignonettetakespictures ~

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James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

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Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"

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An absence so heavy it becomes a presence

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we’ve always been here (and we’re not going anywhere)

@ravens-play-exy-too / the handmaiden (2016) // frida (2002) // wilde (1997) // oscar wilde in a letter to leonard smithers // dickinson (2019-2021) // emily dickinson in a letter to sue dickinson // brokeback mountain (2005) // our flag means death (2022-2023) // e.m. forster, selected letters of e.m. forster // kill your darlings (2013) // black sails (2014-2017) // eleni prineas, finding the lesbians: personal accounts from around the world // anne with an e (2017-2019) // gentleman jack (2019-2022) // portrait of a lady on fire (2019) // a league of their own (2022) // virginia woolf in a letter to vita sackville-west // carol (2015) // james baldwin in an interview with richard goldstein // sappho, fragment 147

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i just don’t have the employable spirit