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Alina

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“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.”
― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

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“I don't have the privilege of independently thinking about gender and race.”
― Sharon Lee De La Cruz, I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World

tags: feminism, gender, intersectionality, privilege, race, real, realization

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“sometimes it was okay to let a little ugliness into your story. That it would never rob you of all the beauty”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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