You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn__ quite fit into the story boys have grown up expecting, but eventually, one day, you__l wake up and want something else, and you__l have to choose. Because the other thing about stories is that they end. The book closes, and you__e left with yourself, a grown fucking woman with no more pieces of cultural detritus from which to construct a personality. I tried and failed to be a character in a story somebody else had written for me. What concerns me now is the creation of new narratives, the opening of space in the collective imagination for women who have not been permitted such space before, for women who don__ exist to please, to delight, to attract men, for women who have more on our minds. Writing is a different kind of magic, and everyone knows what happens to women who do their own magic - but it__ a risk you have to take.
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Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn__ quite fit into the story boys have grown up expecting, but eventually, one day, you__l wake up and want something else, and you__l have to choose. Because the other thing about stories is that they end. The book closes, and you__e left with yourself, a grown fucking woman with no more pieces of cultural detritus from which to construct a personality. I tried and failed to be a character in a story somebody else had written for me. What concerns me now is the creation of new narratives, the opening of space in the collective imagination for women who have not been permitted such space before, for women who don__ exist to please, to delight, to attract men, for women who have more on our minds. Writing is a different kind of magic, and everyone knows what happens to women who do their own magic - but it__ a risk you have to take.
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