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But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

Libba Bray

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Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?

Libba Bray

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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Libba Bray

Mots clés education knowledge school test

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I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Libba Bray

Mots clés education school hell going-bovine

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I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

Libba Bray

Mots clés marriage doctors going-bovine

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I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Libba Bray

Mots clés life death living

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I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing.
Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Libba Bray

Mots clés going-bovine

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How now Mad Cow?