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What does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

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Being sensitive means you understand people. And that’s the greatest power.

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

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Paul was always inclined toward revolution at a distance.

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 

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I can’t comprehend living to work, but then I’m afraid of working just to live.

Maame by Jessica George 

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Since you are a woman, this is your lot in life, your work, to do what’s hard, what’s unspeakably, painful, and then, to keep this covenant of silence.

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder 

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I feel as though societal norms, gender, expectations, and the infuriating bluntness of biology have forced me to become this person even though I’m having a hard time parsing, how, precisely, I arrived at this place.

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

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Maybe you can never be loved for the reasons you think you should be loved.

Stay True by Hua Hsu

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I knew what I was against, but I couldn’t imagine what stood on the other side.

Stay True by Hua Hsu

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Suburbs are about the leisurely conquest of space, an alternative to the uncomfortable density of the city.

Stay True by Hua Hsu

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Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, “it’s been an honor to serve my country.”

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 

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Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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Submission, I soon learned, was also a type of power.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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You will always be afraid of your dreams if they seem possible.

We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

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You opened yourself up to the world like a pomegranate, raw and staining the hands of whoever held it.

We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

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For a lot of my life I’ve had the sense that I wasn’t good enough or that I was better than everyone else — back and forth between inferiority and superiority

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

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No one person can see the whole of who we are.

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

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Are you looking for a relationship because you genuinely want one? Or because you don’t love yourself and you think that if you meet someone who loves you, it will validate your self-worth?

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

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