Why be happy Flashcards
1
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Story telling + Literature
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- Adoption drops you into the story after it’s started
- running away under its own momentum
2
Q
Pursuit of love
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- Healed up through being loved and loving others
- never wanted the diluted version
3
Q
Pursuit of happiness
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- life long, and it’s not goal centered
- “barely alive on your own terms” then living “a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms”
- “if I can’t stay where I am, and I can’t, then I will put all that I can into going”
4
Q
Home + Adoption
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- redeems and unblocks
- “biology or biography”
5
Q
Language
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- a tough life needs a tough language
6
Q
Religion + control
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- if nobody loved me on earth, there is a God in heaven who loved me
- camaraderie, simple happiness, sharing, and the pleasure of something to do in a town where there was nothing to do
7
Q
Suicide
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- Because it had to be an option
- twice born was not just about being alive, but about choosing life
8
Q
Jeanette Winterson
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- I was a nervous watchful child / I was a little thug
- I accepted the bad label. It was better to have some identity than none at all
9
Q
Constance Winterson
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- unhappy seemed to have virtue attached to it
- flamboyant depressive
10
Q
Jack Winterson
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- he didn’t fight for me Lillian
- he always loved you but she wouldn’t let him
11
Q
Helen
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- I held on tighter because helen let go
- we were not lovers, we were in love
12
Q
Janey
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- my period had started again
- I felt free again, I think because I was loved
- When I am with her I am happy. Just happy.
13
Q
Mrs Ratlow
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- she was giving me a chance
- northern women were tough
14
Q
Auntie Nellie
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- made love into soup
- it was my first lesson in lov
15
Q
Ann
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- better for Janet to have a mother and a father
- it isn’t an instant family
