Olivia Oudinot
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“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Olive & Ananas' Book Club
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Two best friends who want to read interesting books about anything and everything, because we simply do not read enough these days. Pursuing the dream ...more
belletrist
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celebrating literature, authors, and the literary community, curated by Emma Roberts & Karah Preiss ...more
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