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	The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality 3.54 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression by Christine Delphy, Rachel Hills (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.17 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality by Rachel Hills (2015-08-04) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sex Myth Lib/E: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality by Rachel Hills (Goodreads Author), Callie Beaulieu (Reader) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Extreme Dangers of Narcissism : Gradually Rejected, shamed and Blamed Children of Emotionally Neglectful Parents. Overcoming the past or present and moving forward by Dr. Colleen Anderson, Rachel Hills (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Father Code: Codes of a Connected Father by Zack Blair, Rachel Hills (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Being able to identify a false ideal is one thing. To reject it, even in the most vulnerable, uncertain parts of your being, is another.”
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“If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you”
― Vincent O'Sullivan, The next room

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“If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

tags: gender, race-and-racism-in-america

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“Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

tags: race-and-racism-in-america, whiteness

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“I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

tags: beauty, blackness, race-and-racism-in-america

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“She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.”
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message 4: by Andrea

Jul 13, 2015 08:35PM

Thanks for recommending me Only Ever Yours; sounds amazing!
PS. I can't wait to read The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, I literally check my mailbox every day (several times).
xo

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message 3: by Rachel

Mar 15, 2013 04:29AM