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The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

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Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living

by Eliot Wigginton

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“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
― Herodotus

tags: knowledge, pain, power

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“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

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“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

tags: courage, cowardice

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“I advocate glamour. Everyday. Every minute" "Glamour above all things.”
― Dita Von Teese

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