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“I'd be content if I could ever make anybody consider the grand, illuminated procession of which they are a part: the larger story of their cultures, legacies, and dreams. Too often we see each other in instrumental terms, as opposed to Kant's ideal of seeing each human being in light of his or her intrinsic value.”
Jennifer Gavin, Dear Students: Reading, Writing, and the Art of Smelling Books

Nancy Mairs
“Shamelessness, like shame, is not a masculine condition. That is, there is no shameless man as there is a shameless woman or, as my grandmother used to say, a shameless hussy. A man without shame is in general assumed to simply have done nothing he need feel guilty about. A woman without shame is a strumpet, a trollop, a whore, a witch. These connotations have been immemorially sexual....My sexuality has been the single most powerful disruptive force mankind has ever perceived, and its repression has been the work of centuries.”
Nancy Mairs

Melissa Febos
“To William H. Gass's argument, "To have written an autobiography is already to have made yourself a monster," I say that refusing to write your story can make you into a monster. Or perhaps more accurately, we are already monsters. And to deny the monstrous is to deny its beauty, its meaning, and its devastation.”
Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

John  Green
“See yourself not as the protagonist of your own heroic journey but instead as a collaborator in a massive, sprawling human epic.”
John Green

Cheryl Strayed
“She wanted us to remember that, and I did. It felt like she was with me always, metaphorically at least. And in a way it was literal too. When we'd finally laid down that tombstone and spread her ashes into the dirt, I hadn't spread them all. I'd kept a few of the largest chunks in my hand. I'd stood for a long while, not ready to release them. I never ever would.
I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.”
Cheryl Strayed, Wild A Journey from Lost to Found, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air 3 Books Collection Set

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