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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when e...more

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Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hai...more

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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put ...more

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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millio...more

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And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can s...more

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And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on hig...more

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She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

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Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn...more

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This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

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A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t know why I’m surprised. You don’t even notice it...more

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Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in the...more