Sign in with Facebook
Mandi Zhang
https://www.goodreads.com/mandyzhang
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here.”
― My Body
― My Body
“I've felt objectified and limited by my position in the world as a so-called sex symbol. I've capitalized on my body within the confines of a cis-hetero, capitalist, patriarchal world, one in which beauty and sex appeal are valued solely through the satisfaction of the male gaze.”
― My Body
― My Body
“I wonder how many women you've disregarded in your life, written off, because you assumed they had nothing to offer beyond the way they looked. How quickly they learned that the stuff in their heads was of less value than the shape of their bodies. I bet they were all smarter than you.”
― My Body
― My Body
“In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”
― My Body
― My Body
The Deep State
— 7 members
— last activity Jan 25, 2022 11:38PM
We read what your mom won't let you read. ...more
Our Shared Shelf
— 223421 members
— last activity 11 hours, 0 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Science Fiction & Philosophy
— 174 members
— last activity Nov 15, 2025 03:15PM
This group has been created to highlight books that speculate about the difficult philosophic questions through the medium of science fiction and/or t ...more
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group
— 24114 members
— last activity 5 hours, 37 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more
Inquiry: Book Club for Inquiring Minds
— 133 members
— last activity Nov 10, 2025 02:10PM
This group meets in real life. Join the discussion. The centerpiece of the discussion will be a book, mostly non-fiction but some fiction. The book ...more
Mandi’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mandi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,005 books
|
180 friends
179 books
|
3 friends
77 books
|
3 friends
151 books
|
116 friends
176 books
|
729 friends
315 books
|
3 friends
77 books
|
2 friends
5 books
|
139 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Mandi
Lists liked by Mandi
