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The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread

by Peter Reinhart

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read in January 2009

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Jess’s Quotes

“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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“At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
-- Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

tags: borderlands-la-frontera

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“I can't seem to stay out of my own way.”
― Gloria Anzaldua

tags: borderlands

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“A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

tags: inspirational-quotes

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“Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

tags: inspirational, writing

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