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Our uneasiness about women controlling their own lives also applies to writing, art, music and other creative pursuits – any form of play. ‘A book is made out of small selfishnesses,’ wrote Claire Dederer in an essay for the Paris Review in
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“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”
― Human Voices
― Human Voices
“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”
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“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
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“If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe.”
― Some Tame Gazelle
― Some Tame Gazelle
“Yes, I love September,’ agreed Belinda, guilty at having let her thoughts wander from her guest. ‘Michaelmas daisies and blackberries and comforting things like fires in the evening again and knitting.”
― Some Tame Gazelle
― Some Tame Gazelle
Lesley’s 2025 Year in Books
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