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He told her that he had big dreams for them. And my mother told him his dreams were his own. She didn’t need much at all besides him.
“And so, because business leadership is still so dominated by men, modern workplaces are riddled with these kind of gaps, from doors that are too heavy for the average woman to open with ease, to glass stairs and lobby floors that mean anyone below can see up your skirt, to paving that’s exactly the right size to catch your heels.”
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“So a group of one hundred female teachers in Spanish would be referred to as ‘las profesoras’ – but as soon as you add a single male teacher, the group suddenly becomes ‘los profesores’. Such is the power of the default male.”
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Who goes for a walk at midnight in March aside from badgers and sex offenders?”
― You Killed Me First
― You Killed Me First
“Take her away. I tire of her mundane face.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I love you, too, Grandpa.” For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Elizabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
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