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Doris
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“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
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“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
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“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
― Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
“To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.”
― I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language
― I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language
“Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
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