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“A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“It's your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you're free to do just as you like.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.”
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“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
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