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“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
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“Beauty needs a witness.”
― The Alabaster Girl
― The Alabaster Girl
“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
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“I woke to the sound of rain.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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