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‘But, surely, if one lives merely for one’s self, Harry, one pays a terrible price for doing so?’ suggested the painter.
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“Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
“I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“...the capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.”
― My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
― My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.”
― The Croning
― The Croning
“I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”
― American Housewife
― American Housewife
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