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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

by Glynnis MacNicol

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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

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The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne

by Summer N. England

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Boutayna’s Quotes

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

tags: family-relationships, love, trevor-noah

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“I’m not afraid,” she declared, and she wasn’t. She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear. The”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

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“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited. The highest rung of what's possible is far beyond the world you can see. My mother showed me what was possible. The thing that always amazed me about her life is that one showed her. No one showed her. She did on her own. She found her way through sheer force of will.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

tags: classism, dreams, possibilities, racism

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