I need someone to create a successful live adaptation of one of my books so that I can be invited to and attend a red carpet event, where I can finally wear a glamorous and expensive gown.
when Taylor swift said “the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up” BUT when Pheobe bridgers said “all the skeletons you hide, show me yours and I’ll show you mine”
"It is not Adam's superiority of brains or brawn that gives him his absolute advantage over Eve, but his blockish stupidity. He does not notice, does not listen, is uninterested, indifferent, dumb. He will not relate to her; she must relate herself--in words and actions--to him, and relate him to the rest of Eden. He is entirely satisfied with himself as he is; she must adapt her ways to him. He is immovably fixed at the center of his own attention. To live with him she must agree to be peripheral to him, contingent, secondary." ~ Ursula K. LeGuin, from her essay "Reading Young, Reading Old", in her book "The Wave in the Mind"