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Communist revolutions transformed the status of women. In his attempt to modernise the Chinese economy, Mao Zedong recognised that women needed equality if he was to bring them into the workforce in sufficient numbers, while in Russia the
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“An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don't know is infinite.”
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― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
“Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: they just go.”
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― De avond is ongemak
“Nobody knows my heart. It's hidden deep side my coat, my skin, my ribs. My heart was important for nine months inside my mother's belly, but once I left the belly, everyone stopped caring whether it beat enough times per hour. No one worries when it stops or begins to beat fast, telling me there must be something wrong.”
― De avond is ongemak
― De avond is ongemak
“There is nothing better for a child than to grow up at the ends of the earth.”
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
“To start writing was to cease to be a curious listener, an addressee, and to become instead the horizon point of the family line, the destination for the many-eyed, many-decked ship of family history. I would become a stranger, a teller of tales, a selector and a sifter, the one who decides what part of the huge volume of the unsaid must fit in the spotlight's circle, and what part will remain outside it in the darkness.”
― In Memory of Memory
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