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Nine Lives

by Catherine Steadman (Goodreads Author)

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The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

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The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice

by Natalie Livingstone

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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