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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

by Joanna Biggs

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

by Ed Conway

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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

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She also said to keep your passport renewed, to pair red wines with meats and whites with everything else, to find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, to never forget to fall in love whenever you can find it because ...more

Here After

by Amy Lin

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Just Kids

by Patti Smith

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Emily’s Quotes

“A reminder that no matter what we lose, no matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you forever.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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“I hadn't ever thought that a man could love me in the same way that my friends love me; that I could love a man with the same commitment and care with which I love them. Maybe all this time I had been in a great marriage without even realising.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

tags: friendship, inspiration, love, marriage

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“You are moving out of the realm of fantasy "when I grow up" and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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“She found too much cheer undesirable, smacking of falseness. How did Americans keep up their good spirits day in, day out, year-round? It had to be the brand-shiny-newness of their country. It had to be all that freedom. No thousands of years' worth of stultifying rules to observe. Just easy-peasy rolling with the flow.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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“My mum often told me this was a misguided act of feminism; that emulating the most loutish behavior of men was not a mark of equality.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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