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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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May 03, 2026 06:42AM

“Teachers and helpers of all kinds will be of limited use if they are doing their work to build up their own egos. In fact, setting out to help others is a very quick way to pop the bubble of ego.”
― Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

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“Hour by hour we watched vans arrive, discharge their quota of women, depart empty. The same wailings from the new arrivals, the same barking and shouts from the guards. How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It’s always the same”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

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“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

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“Here we are in our finery, playing at the venerable Gasworks. Deep in the throes of glam, we’d change into our sequins and studs in a tiny dressing area situated beneath a restroom, which more than once leaked through the ceiling, forcing us to go onstage redolent of urine.”
― Geddy Lee, My Effin' Life: From Holocaust Roots to Rock and Roll Stardom

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“My eyes are more than blind; they are deformed. Disturbing. I would probably attract more men if I hid them, but why would I want more men? The ones I already attract never really want me. Except Madding, and even he wished I were something else. My houseguest did not want me at all.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms

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