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“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“During the years when I found it necessary to revise the circuitry of my mind I discovered that I was no longer interested in whether the woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor jumped or did not jump, or in why. I was interested only in the picture of her in my mind: her hair incandescent in the floodlights, her bare toes curled inward on the stone ledge. In this light all narrative was sentimental. In this light all connections were equally meaningful, and equally senseless.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
Talia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Talia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
47 books
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11 friends
1,198 books
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24 friends
643 books
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54 friends
219 books
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13 friends
218 books
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37 friends
251 books
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9 friends
979 books
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29 friends
98 books
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10 friends
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