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“That is because some people have appointed themselves his police. And I tell you, child, the police are far worse than God himself. That is why the day you catch your man with another woman, you will go for the woman and not him. My
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“I am a firm believer in the Stoppardian premise that ideas can be sexy and that great plays should make us think as well as feel, while waking us up to the clichés of our own quotidian language. Perhaps”
― Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater
― Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater
“I reject the notion that thinness is the goal, that thin = better—that I am an unfinished thing and that my life can really start when I lose weight. That then I will be a real person and have finally succeeded as a woman. I am not going to waste another second of my life thinking about this. I don’t want to have another fucking conversation with another fucking woman about what she’s eating or not eating or regrets eating or pretends to not regret eating to mask the regret. OOPS I JUST YAWNED TO DEATH.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“I think it’s a response to terrorism. From the time we’re little girls, we’re taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We’re terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can’t tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to be wary of them all. We’re told not to go out by ourselves late at night, not to dress a certain way, not to talk to male strangers, not to lead men on. We take self-defense classes, keep our doors locked, carry pepper spray and rape whistles. The fear of men is ingrained in us from girlhood. Isn’t that a form of terrorism?”
― Dietland
― Dietland
“Momma reaches her fork onto my plate and breaks off a piece of pancake. “What is Tumblr anyway? Is it like Facebook?” “No, and you’re forbidden to get one. No parents allowed. You guys already took over Facebook.” “You haven’t responded to my friend request yet.” “I know.” “I need Candy Crush lives.” “That’s why I’ll never respond.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“Divide and conquer is best accomplished through silencing, through calling into question those who speak out. There is so much of this attached to the trans movement. Even just wondering about a profound concept such as transgender is labeled “transphobic”. What I think has happened is that people are now phobic about their own gut responses to life. We are being systematically separated from our own intuition. This is fatal for a civilization, I think. Not that our intuition always tells the truth with a capital T, but it is a critical piece of who we are. Without it, we remain profoundly directionless, and more susceptible to coercion of all types. What”
― Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
― Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
Elsie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elsie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
805 books
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80 friends
689 books
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23 friends
4,225 books
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112 friends
1,568 books
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32 friends
417 books
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69 friends
1,084 books
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60 friends
1,772 books
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60 friends
649 books
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113 friends
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