# Ask Not ![[Assets/3b7c0b34e2a067dd9dfd44d056f43384_MD5.jpg]] ## Metadata - Author: [[Maureen Callahan]] - Full Title: Ask Not - Category: #books ## Highlights - Kennedy men have been valorized and lionized for nearly a century, but the women they’ve broken, tormented, raped, murdered, or left for dead have never really been part of their legacy. They must be. None of this is history. As William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ([Location 223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CMQCF8ZW&location=223)) - “How to Start Your Own Magazine,” and despite their teacher’s warnings—most start-ups fail, and magazines about religion and politics are surefire losers— ([Location 353](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CMQCF8ZW&location=353)) - Only Marilyn’s shrinks had any inkling why she spoke that way, why some women who were abused as children sometimes adopt a child’s voice. It was a way of saying: I’m smaller than you. Please don’t hurt me. ([Location 1326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CMQCF8ZW&location=1326))