Alessandra

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Alessandra’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World – A Travel Memoir of Quarter-Life Crisis and Self-Discovery

The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World – A Travel Memoir of Quarter-Life Crisis and Self-Discovery by Jennifer Baggett

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We were searching for answers, but as we’d learn along the way, the ones you uncover are rarely those to the questions asked.

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
― Bill Moyers

tags: community, democracy, librarianship, libraries, progressivism

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“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
― Laura Bush

tags: children, education, learning, libraries, library, reading

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“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
― Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

tags: libraries

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“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..”
― bell hooks, Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

tags: libraries

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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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