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Il bacio della Medusa

by Melania G. Mazzucco

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Service Model

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)

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Isabella’s Quotes

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: beauty, control, diet, fad, feminism, feminist, food, myth, obedience

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“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl's Moving Castle

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“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

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“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? ”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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