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I think there’s a deep societal fear of female rage, partly because it hasn’t been experienced a lot. Men—I speak in vast generalities—are often very afraid of what they don’t know how to handle. And they haven’t had to handle female rage a lot, and they think they need to handle it.

— Gillian Flynn

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Sleep is like a cat: it only comes to you if you ignore it.

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She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot. She might as well wrap her head in foil.

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