Sign in with Facebook
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
―
―
“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
―
―
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
―
―
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
―
―
“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
I Read Therefore I Am
— 176 members
— last activity Jul 04, 2021 02:58AM
Join us, if you will, on our voyage of literary discovery. Each month we will be reading one reasonably sized book from Boxall's 1001 Books to Read Be ...more
Liesa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Liesa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
516 books
|
190 friends
447 books
|
126 friends
745 books
|
76 friends
439 books
|
71 friends
62 books
|
99 friends
706 books
|
48 friends
405 books
|
215 friends
762 books
|
174 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Thriller, and Travel
Polls voted on by Liesa
Lists liked by Liesa
