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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South

by Kami Ahrens

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In a Dark, Dark Wood

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Elena’s Quotes

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

tags: grief, writing

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“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.

I sat down on the lawn and wept.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

tags: misogyny, not-all-men, patriarchy, sexism

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