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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
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“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
Erika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
513 books
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147 friends
535 books
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59 friends
133 books
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6 friends
188 books
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47 friends
509 books
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16 friends
3 books
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11 friends
1 book
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1 friend
6 books
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116 friends
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