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Cecily

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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Cecily’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for From the Corner of the Oval Office: One Woman’s True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House

From the Corner of the Oval Office: One Woman’s True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House by Beck Dorey-Stein

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POTUS is the first sitting president to visit a prison.

Motherthing

by Ainslie Hogarth

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Woman, Eating

by Claire Kohda

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Cecily’s Quotes

“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.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

tags: gender, gender-roles, gender-stereotypes

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“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.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

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“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.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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