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“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. —Adrienne Rich”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“But I always come back, not because I am drawn to the horrors but because I feel a visceral need to know them. Knowledge allows remembering and remembering is honouring.”
― Wandering Souls
― Wandering Souls
“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“Crying fits are to be conducted in private, that’s library rules.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“What Alice needed most then was a nice long holiday, and then perhaps institutionalization at some remote facility near the sea.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
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