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paper. For me it’s like this: I make up a novel in my head (there will be more about this later). This is the happiest time in the arc of my writing process. The book is my invisible friend, omnipresent, evolving, thrilling. During the
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“Librarianship was not just a job for her, but her tikkun olam, the Hebrew phrase for “repairing the world.”
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
“When asked which authors were her favorites as a teenager, she replied: “Everybody who was forbidden: Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Brod, Leon Trotsky . . . and what we did was we passed around the paperbacks. We read them, and as we finished reading, we tore up the pages and destroyed them so we wouldn’t get caught.”
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
“Ruth, just ten years old at the time, heard that it was happening. She set out to see it for herself and described the heaps of books set on fire in the road. She was stunned to see this happening in her hometown, the world-famous city of books, and did everything in her might to not cry as she passed by and watched.”
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
“In her application to Berkeley’s School of Librarianship, she wrote that watching book burnings and reading banned books had inspired her to become a librarian.”
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
― A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport
“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.”
― Malinche
― Malinche
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