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Sue Monk Kidd
“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”
Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

Jane Austen
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Pearl S. Buck
“You are an artist,” she said. “But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.”
Pearl S. Buck, The Goddess Abides: A Novel

Charles Darwin
“It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me.”
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Philip Gourevitch
“Much of [John Hanning] Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of Nile is devoted to descriptions of the physical and moral ugliness of Africa's "primitive races," in whose condition he found "a strikingly existing proof of the Holy Scriptures." For his text, Speke took the story in Genesis 9, which tells how Noah, when he was just six hundred years old and had safely skippered his ark over the flood to dry land, got drunk and passed out naked in his tent. On emerging from his oblivion, Noah learned that his youngest son, Ham, had seen him naked; that Ham had told his brothers, Shem and Japheth, of the spectacle; and that Shem and Japheth had, with their backs chastely turned, covered the old man with a garment. Noah responded by cursing the progeny of Ham's son, Canaan, saying, "A slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers." Amid the perplexities of Genesis, this is one of the most enigmatic stories, and it has been subjected to many bewildering interpretations--most notably that Ham was the original black man. To the gentry of the American South, the weird tale of Noah's curse justified slavery, and to Spake and his colonial contemporaries it spelled the history of Africa's peoples. On "contemplating these sons of Noah," he marveled that "as they were then, so they appear to be now.”
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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403 books | 18 friends

Sari St...
84 books | 35 friends

Pei Flatau
3 books | 23 friends

Brenton...
95 books | 22 friends

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13 books | 31 friends

Adriane...
1 book | 11 friends



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