

“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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“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”
― Time for a Tiger
― Time for a Tiger

“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers

“The Chinese language is extremely hard to learn. It is the only major linguistic system in the world that does not have an alphabet; and it is composed of numerous complicated characters – ideograms – which have to be memorised one by one and, moreover, are totally unrelated to sounds.”
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
― Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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