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“Everything costs money,” Ham said. “But what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.
“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
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