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Shayla

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Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

by Ashley Herring Blake

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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)

by Samantha Shannon (Goodreads Author)

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Shayla’s Quotes

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

tags: hell, timing, truth

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“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

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“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights

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“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating,
approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”
― Abraham Maslow