Katie Whitman
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“The concert was three hours of heaven, all of them scream-singing the words to every song along with thousands of other girls, lifted together on a tide of riotous, unapologetic joy, the feeling that to be a girl with other girls was not some weakness, as they had been told, but a power, the best and luckiest power on earth.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters
“But maybe the road split between:
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
“With a baby one could no longer be cute and coy about capitalism - money was time, time was everything. We could have skipped lightly across all this by not becoming parents; it never really had to come to a head.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Music, Thriller, and Young-adult
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