📚💬 “If this is your first draft, stop worrying.” - Leigh Bardugo in her latest newsletter
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📚💬 “When academic women, experts in their fields, are seen as not credible, then can women ever be?” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” p. 55.
📚💬 “My Ph.D. cannot trump my gender.” Kelly J. Baker, SEXISM ED, “Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” p. 52.
“She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them…” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 📚💬
Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.
Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬
Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.
💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co
💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE NINTH #relatable