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“She shouldn't have. She knew it. But her love for him was new, and her love for herself was old, and she was all she'd had for so very, very long.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“Happy birthday, friend of my heart,” she said.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“The future homemaker trains for her role within the home, but the boy prepares for his by being given more independence outside the home, by his taking a “paper route” or a summer job. A provider will profit by independence, dominance, aggressiveness, competitiveness.8”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife.
'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'
...the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again...”
― Fates and Furies
'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'
...the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again...”
― Fates and Furies
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