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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why

by Sady Doyle

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Jan 14, 2026 04:09AM

“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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“I can wade Grief—
Whole Pools of it—
I'm used to that—
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet—
And I tip—drunken—
Let no Pebble—smile—
'Twas the New Liquor—
That was all!”
― Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

tags: emotion, grief, joy, loneliness, ocean, poetry

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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex

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“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”
― Janis Joplin

tags: be-yourself, self-actualization, self-awareness, self-reliance

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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

tags: books, finding-your-way, libraries, library

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