Sign in with Facebook
Cecily
https://www.goodreads.com/cecilyleah
Motherthing
by
Nothing else matters but her pain, the biggest, loudest thing in the world, unimaginable, a way that people only ever expect to feel maybe once in their life, if ever at all, and maybe never even really recover from.
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”
― The Power
― The Power
“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
― The Power
― The Power
Cecily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cecily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,022 books
|
87 friends
176 books
|
48 friends
50 books
|
7 friends
258 books
|
177 friends
100 books
|
7 friends
0 books
|
4 friends
0 books
|
14 friends
72 books
|
11 friends
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Cecily
Lists liked by Cecily
