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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women

by Elena Favilli (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 07, 2017 05:06PM

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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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“There are times when you need the extremity of rock, the hardness of an old, cold place against which you can measure yourself. There are times when you need to retreat to the wilderness. But there are times when you need the subtle flow of a river, the song of a waterfall and the deep, slow presence of trees. Times when you need to Return. There are times for holding on, and times for letting go.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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“Because it’s time for us to rise up and take back our role as caretakers and stewards not just of the land but of the children, too. I think a lot of women are doing this now, with more homeschooling, with community projects, with educational projects that operate a little bit outside the norms of our patriarchal education system.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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“It’s a contract you see, people and the land. You care for it, and it cares for you.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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“We can possess all the fine goods that our civilisation has to offer us; we can have important jobs, and social status, and tone our bodies on all the latest machines – but without a sense of belonging to the world, we feel empty and our lives lack meaning.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”
― Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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