New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.
Molly CrabappleWhen virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.
Molly CrabappleA womanโs beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. Weโre meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think weโre fat. Beauty is Zenoโs paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but itโs not socially acceptable to admit weโre there. We canโt perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.
Molly CrabappleThe occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.
Molly CrabappleThe truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.
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