Tag: Feminism
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The Heart Goes Last
“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
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Breasts and Eggs
“People are willing to accept the pain and suffering of others, limitless amounts of it, as long as it helps them to keep on believing in whatever it is that they want to believe. Love, meaning, doesn’t matter.”
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Hamnet
“I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can’t have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is…
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
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Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism
“Leaving women out of the story isn’t a simple slip-up. It is a consequence of a world that tells us they just aren’t quite as important.”
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The Burning
“It’s worth knowing that sometimes people see you as a symbol of something instead of a person. And, when they do, it reflects on them, not you.”
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How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
“Living your life according to what everyone else might think of you is to cede control of who you are. It is to outsource your identity to a bunch of strangers who do not know you.”
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