Lauren

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Lauren’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (252)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (672)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (311)
non-fiction‎ (168)
lesbian-content‎ (140)
lgbtq‎ (140)
comics‎ (114)

canadian-literature‎ (112)
poetry‎ (80)
in-translation‎ (61)
arts-and-photography‎ (60)
dystopian-and-speculative-fiction‎ (35)
plays‎ (35)
memoir‎ (33)
young-adult‎ (31)
feminism‎ (30)

sisters‎ (19)
fantasy‎ (17)
toronto‎ (16)
indigenous-writers‎ (15)
information-sciences‎ (15)
mythology-and-folklore‎ (13)
cities‎ (10)
french‎ (10)
philosophy‎ (10)

essays‎ (5)
estonia‎ (5)
neuroscience‎ (5)
design‎ (4)
language‎ (3)
religion‎ (3)
science‎ (3)
short-stories‎ (3)
mental-health‎ (1)

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Lauren’s Quotes

“Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months

See what happens to your life.”
― Yoko Ono

43 likes

“This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.”
― Mariko Tamaki, Skim

tags: teenagers

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“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.”
― Nicole Brossard, The Aerial Letter

tags: feminism, lesbian, lesbian-literature

11 likes

“Imagine the clouds dripping
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in”
― Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

tags: hidenness, imagination

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“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

tags: language, words

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