compartmentalize

“Suffs” sometimes feels like a history lesson neatly compartmentalized into Important Episodes.

“My Spanish house was amazing but very compartmentalized,” she says.

So I stopped trying to be my whole self everywhere, and gave myself permission to prioritize and compartmentalize.

Alma wants this thing so f*cking badly, and so much of that has been predicated on being able to compartmentalize and being able to not look at certain things from her past.

Her generation was inculcated to cozy up to men in power and treat younger women like competition or pets; she keeps her conscience as compartmentalized as a box of fishing tackle.