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Jess is Currently Reading

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Sadness Is a White Bird

by Moriel Rothman-Zecher (Goodreads Author)

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Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)

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Bods Among Men: A Homo-Generous Guide to Body Change

by Adam Neal (Goodreads Author)

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Jess’s Quotes

“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
― Marge Piercy

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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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“In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,”
― Marge Piercy

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“The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”
― Marge Piercy

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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
― Marge Piercy

tags: love, talent, writer, writing

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