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“the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“I think some men love the idea of a strong independent woman but they don’t want to marry a strong independent woman,”
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“Socialists have a big job ahead of them here. They have got to demonstrate, beyond possibility of doubt, just where the line of cleavage between exploiter and exploited comes. Once again it is a question of sticking to the essentials; and the essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk of 'capitalism' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“As Syreeta McFadden noted, “Only in America can a dead black boy go on trial for his own murder.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
500 Great Books By Women
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Penguin Clothbound Classics
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If you not only love having a great classic to read but also cherish the feel of a wonderful object, then these are the books for you. Bound in cloth ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Virago Modern Classics
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But once a woman stole the initiative, plundered the perquisites and took the lead, what happened to the globe? The fabric cracked [Daphne du Maurier] ...more
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