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Jen

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The Whisper Man

by Alex North (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 23, 2026 12:29PM

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Facial Justice

by L.P. Hartley

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Jen’s Quotes

“I'm a good girl. I am pretty. I am always happy-go-lucky.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

tags: conditioning, female-subjugation, self-delusion, societal-expectations

5 likes

“Ah! Mother, Mother! You still think I am a child - why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trousers - it is such a little time ago, why is it over?”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: war

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“We have never had a class on how to say no to men while simultaneously never saying no to them.”
― Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours

tags: consent, contradictory-expectations, double-standards, madonna-whore

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“A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.”
― Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

tags: deprivation, ghetto-lifestyle, poverty, survival

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