“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Genevieve’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Genevieve’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, and Travel
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