Christina Carrell
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“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness—and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [...] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful.”
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“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. Cien sonetos de amor
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. Cien sonetos de amor
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he at eighteen knew that it would take more than one person to make.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
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