Brenna
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“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“It's not fair," I said. "It cannot be."
"Those are two different things," my grandmother said.”
― Circe
"Those are two different things," my grandmother said.”
― Circe
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Instead, I ask, After evolution was discovered, how did religion and society respond? After cities were electrified, how did daily life change? After the airplane could fly from one country to another, how did commerce or warfare change? After we walked on the Moon, how differently did we view Earth? My larger understanding of people, places and things derives primarily from stories surrounding questions such as those.”
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“Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put...”
― The Garden of Paradise
― The Garden of Paradise
“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Circe
― Circe
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