Jessica Matzko

How to Define Success as a Writer On Ambition in the Face of Failure

“Radical self-belief was a religion for me, a coping mechanism, the only way I could survive my childhood with a sense of self, with a shred of ambition to be more than what little my undiverse community expected of me.” open.substack.com/pub/katjolew...

Once read speculation that “existential intelligence” leads kids like ours to reject Santa, tooth fairy, and - in our case - the concept of gravity (and all books referencing it). 🤦🏻‍♀️ It sounds so noble when framed this way. lol

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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Europe Won’t Fix You Moving to Europe won’t solve your problems, nor should it.

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Zuckerberg's concern for “masculine energy” is giving the same vibes a professor emanated in 2007 when he told me: "You should consider a PhD although this would ... continue to lead to the feminization of my field." 🙄

Grew up listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Thomas) each holiday season. Getting the prickling that this beautiful work—Time of the Child—may have to be added to the tradition …

The sneaky thing that might be standing in the way of your creative work. Why the Self story is the most important story

The stories we tell ourselves matter more than we’d like to believe.

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Spent my holiday making a TBR holds list on my local library's Libby app. Did not realize managing 10+ holds by staggering the delivery dates between Dec 30 and February 15 would be a full time job.

The Scorpio energy we all know and married 😭

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’

Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:

Henry Miller’s Notice to Visitors “When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”

“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”

On Henry Miller's birthday, his notice to visitors https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/27/henry-miller-notice-to-visitors/

Just call me token woman The pleasures, pains and paradoxes of being a public female.

Too often "speaking up" is a call for women to "[cosplay] an Oxbridge debating society male in order to fit in" rather than contribute to the "existential and relational" facets of the questions at hand morefullyalive.substack.com/p/just-call-...