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arielle arielle said: " Trying to get back on the short story train. Know without a doubt in my mind that these stories, whether I like them or not, are going to be a wild ride. Ottessa Moshfegh knows no other way.

Bettering Myself
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arielle arielle said: " It is an incredibly bizarre experience reading/teaching The Hunger Games as an adult. Doubt there's anything I can really add to the conversation that hasn't already been said. However, from a teacher perspective, this text is excellent for teaching ...more "

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Normal People
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arielle arielle said: " While I'm bumping this up to five stars, I don't believe Normal People is a five-star read throughout. Nor do I think it will be a five-star read to everyone. I had similar thoughts following my reading of Sally Rooney's other novel, Conversations wi ...more "

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Margaret Atwood
“I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood
“Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Roxane Gay
“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”
Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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