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I was promised misandry and anti-men rhetoric and this gave no such thing. Liars! I can now see that so many stupid people on TikTok misconstrued Dworkin’s words or straight up never picked up her works and were yapping about her based on misinformat
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“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”
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Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”
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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Shatter Me
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Shatter Me
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