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"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." — Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM
"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." — Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM
third was a love of social justice – that so-called morality should not be cruel; that people should not be pigeonholed into social classes, their futures determined by who their parents were and where they went to school; that education
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“I want young people to see themselves in books in a way that I never did, and, to know that somebody understands. It's important to me.”
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“I feel like I'm making all the mistakes I would have made if I'd been dating people since I was thirteen. Even if you're really just playing at being in a relationship, you're still feeling your way through it at least. You're finding out what it means to be with someone, to care about them, what it means to have someone else in your life like that. I feel like the straight kids all get a roadmap and a head start, and the queer kids get given a faulty compass and a dead leg so they have to limp their way to 'destination relationship' while blindfolded.”
― You’re the One That I Want
― You’re the One That I Want
“According to Human Rights Watch, “the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“In Britain, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809–98) opposed suffrage because to involve women in politics would be, he said, ‘to trespass upon the delicacy, the purity, the refinement, the elevation of their nature’.”
― A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
― A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
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