“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.” — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
“So much of falling in love is a biographical project, we turn our stories over and hope for the best. Should you inspire the… — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
“Let’s call it the theory of receptivity. It’s the idea, often cited by young people in their case against the relevance of even marginally older people, that one’s taste—in music or film, literature or fine cuisine—petrifies during life’s peak of happiness or nadir of misery. Or maybe it’s not that simple. Maybe a subtler spike on the charts—upward, downward, anomalous… — Michelle Orange Copy Share
“Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for… — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to… — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
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