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Catherine Bishop
https://www.goodreads.com/readingcrazypatterns
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“Well. If you are worried about the effects of feminism and you are a man, it's probably because you are worried that men will start to be treated like women have been treated since the dawn of time. By this I mean worse, which makes you nervous, no doubt.”
― You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
― You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
“I’ve found myself leaving an event or a party paralysed with fear because of something that I’ve said, and spent the next couple of days worrying about what people would think of me. Of course, in reality, the hundred or so people who were at the event didn’t spend the hour after I left the party talking about me. Despite what I might believe, I am not the planet around which everyone else orbits.”
― Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate
― Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate
“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
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