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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
Brenda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brenda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Young-adult, autobiography, gothic-revival, high-fantasy, urban-fantasy, epic-fantasy, mythology, fairy-tales, dark-fantasy, heroic-fantasy, elves, weird-fiction, modern-classics, witches, dystopia, and feminism
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