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Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

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"After 3 years of owning this book I am FINALLY getting it off my physical tbr" — Feb 11, 2026 03:09PM

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Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980

by Eleanor Johnson

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“Sometimes she rebelled distantly: life is long . . . She feared the days, one after another, without surprises, of pure devotion to a man. To a man who would freely use of all of his wife’s forces for his own bonfire, in a serene, unconscious sacrifice of everything that wasn’t his own personality.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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“He always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to soothe him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalising pain than the one he really felt, maybe just the cognitive energy it required, the momentary break in his train of thought, but afterwards he would only feel worse.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“I’d like to have Luke here, in this bedroom while I’m getting dressed, so I could have a fight with him. Absurd, but that’s what I want. An argument, about who should put the dishes in the dishwasher, whose turn it is to sort the laundry, clean the toilet; something daily and unimportant in the big scheme of things. We could even have a fight about that, about unimportant, important. What a luxury it would be. Not that we did it much. These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards too.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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