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“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
― Selected Poems and Letters
― Selected Poems and Letters
“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
― Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― An Outcast of the Islands
― An Outcast of the Islands
“The Nyungar people, and indeed the entire Aboriginal population, grew to realise what the arrival of the European settlers meant for them: it was the destruction of their traditional society and the dispossession of their lands.”
― Rabbit-Proof Fence
― Rabbit-Proof Fence
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