This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength, but hardness.

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"I remember Amy Hempel said, “The more literal you are, the more metaphorical people will think you are being.” Every year I figure out additional ways that this is true, or how bending this idea against itself is also true."

— Blake Butler