Lori Summers

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Lori is Currently Reading

Lori Summers is currently reading

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

by Marie Bostwick (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, book-club, feminism, fiction, historical-fiction

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Lori’s Quotes

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: dream, first-sentence

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“America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: first-sentence

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“One must know how to doubt.”
― Alexandre Lacassagne, Précis de médecine judiciaire

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation

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