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“It was all about the G.I.s overseas. As the war became more of a reality and blue stars on windows were turning to gold stars indicating a soldier’s death, the tensions at home were increasing. Giving what little they could for the war effort was often an act of desperation. Some people made pacts with God to bring their men home hoping beyond hope that it made a difference.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
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“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― Blinders Keepers
― Blinders Keepers
“I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.'
Huh. As if.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
Huh. As if.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
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