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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

by Kaila Yu (Goodreads Author)

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"It’s really a painful read. I am in like a culture related field and I don’t know if I feel this competition or fear of my asianess maybe it’s a sign of progress and if I was born 20 years earlier I would’ve felt similarly. I do consider plastic surgery all the time but I don’t think it’s because I hate being Asian" — Jan 31, 2026 10:00PM

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The White Album

by Joan Didion

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The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries (Goodreads Author)

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Katie’s Quotes

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: catatonia, coma, life

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries

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