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Karyn Pavlas

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Karyn’s Quotes

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

428 likes

“All we have to do is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will have arrived at the place we most
fear, the thing from which we have been averting our eyes. No additional effort required.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

tags: climate-change

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“Think about it mate – the 'Long Gun'. That's a ladyboy bar.”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: bangkok, gaslighting, intimidation, military-bases, occult, poisoning, sexual-assault, travel-memoirs

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“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her neck throbbed with fury in a scene all too familiar. Her reaction switched him off to her instantly as all his worst fears came to life.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, fight, gripping, literary-fiction, love, mystery, war

491 likes

“The filigreed iron gates of the Navy Yard were open wide between two pillars that featured large spread-winged eagles on orbs. Men were standing around as women came out together in their overalls after their shifts. Before the war women didn’t work at the Navy Yard, but with men joining up or drafted and a new campaign with a poster of 'Rosie the Riveter' it did its job encouraging woman to work outside the home for the war effort.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted