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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Book cover for Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir

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“Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.”

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“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“only people who think they have a future fear death.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

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“How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“Once upon a time there was a wicked witch and her name was
Lilith
Eve
Hagar
Jezebel
Delilah
Pandora
Jahi
Tamar
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called goddess and her name was
Kali
Fatima
Artemis
Hera
Isis
Mary
Ishtar
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called queen and her name was
Bathsheba
Vashti
Cleopatra
Helen
Salome
Elizabeth
Clytemnestra
Medea
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called witch and her name was
Joan
Circe
Morgan le Fay
Tiamat
Maria Leonza
Medusa
and they had this in common: that they were feared, hated, desired, and worshiped.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

tags: feminism, history, women

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