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Instead, ‘male pride’ is this: fear about being poor and unvalued. A fear of having no money or power. A fear of becoming unemployable.
“Mourning the passing of their youth made them jealous of young people and resentful of all the things young people do. Consequently, she and other old people inclined to remember themselves in childhood not as children but as miniature adults and their parents as patron saints of irreproachable stature. They did not recollect ever stepping outside the margins and viewed willfulness in modern children as a sign of emerging pathology.”
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“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
― Primary Colors
― Primary Colors
“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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