Monster Instead Quotes by Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters…
• Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.
• For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind…
• Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
• A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these…
• And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to…
• The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)
• You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the…
• The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our…
• A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell…
• The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.
• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun…

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