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Kate Sloan
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200 Words to Help you Talk about Sexuality & Gender *OSI*
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The phrase “see attached bibliography” is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
I think the most important thing a romance novel needs to do is make the reader believe these two people would fall in love. What do they see in each other? Why would this person love that one? There are a lot of reasons for Alex and Henry, but a huge one is how deeply intellectual, cerebral, and obsessive about books and history both of them are. A similar moment to this one is when Henry is going on about history in the V&A and Alex just kisses him mid-sentence. They both are incredible smart people, and they are both attracted to incredibly smart people. Put more plainly: nerds love nerds.
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“the point of life is to find the thing you’re good at and enjoy doing, and to do it for other people.”
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“I, myself, have used this approach in large “Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies” classes, suggesting to straight male students that if for no other reason, they should at least embrace feminism because doing so will result in better heterosexuality—more authentic relationships with women and better sex based on women’s enthusiastic interest, rather than women’s placating and ambivalent consent. But I don’t feel good about this approach; I want men to be feminists because they value women’s humanity, because they identify with women, and because they see that the gender binary is a historical, political-economic, and cultural invention that has caused no end of suffering for women and also for themselves. When men extend empathy and subjectivity to women out of self-interest, to grease the wheels of sexual access or to continue receiving women’s emotional labor, this makes no intervention into men’s profound sense of entitlement to women’s bodies and women’s love, nor does it
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“the way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.”
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“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.’ ‘That’s because it is.’ ‘So why live at all?’ ‘Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“So much talking makes it hard to listen.”
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
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