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“The novelist in me is inspired by how much raising children is like writing books: You don’t know where they’re going until they get there. You may think you do, but you’re probably wrong. Corralling and forcing them against their will to go where you first imagined they would isn’t going to work for anyone involved. Never mind you’re the one writing and raising them, they are headed in their own direction, independent of you. And scary though that is, it’s also how it should be.”
― This Is How It Always Is
― This Is How It Always Is
“Charlie was far from the she'd seen. She had language... all those years of energy poured into achieving the aesthetic of being educated rather than actually having learned anything.”
― True Biz
― True Biz
“Sign language had been so thoroughly stigmatized that in trying to avoid it, parents had unknowingly opted for a modern version of institutionalization, locking their children away in their own minds.”
― True Biz
― True Biz
“It was hard to imagine what the world might be like if deaf people had as short a fuse about hearing people's inability to sign, their neglect or refusal to caption TV, or , hell the announcements on this bus. Of course, that was their privilege--to conflate majority with superiority.”
― True Biz
― True Biz
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, somebody let me speak the truth, somebody let me," she cried... "Saying it is the only thing that makes me feel better, even the drugs aren't as good as that. All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. I want to talk before I die. I want to be the one who gets to say things, who gets to think the deep thoughts. You'll all talk when I'm gone. Let me talk now without shushing me because it hurts you to hear what I have to say. I'm tired of being shushed.”
― One True Thing
― One True Thing
Bluestockings Book Group
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A book club for people who want to read books about women that meets in the Barnes and Noble in Denton, Texas, the 3rd Thursday of every month.
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