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“You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.”
― Jamie Le Fay, Disillusion

tags: body-positive, feminism, feminist

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“Your gaze is very powerful, but trust me, it won't open that door”
― Jamie Le Fay, Disillusion

tags: magic

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“Because when you kiss your first boy or girl, you don't want to be so caught up in your lack of self-worth that you forget to enjoy the kiss, that you forget that you deserve the pleasure of that moment. You don't want to be so caught up in your lack of self-worth that you become an object of his or her desire, a grateful unworthy slave to his or her attention.”
― Jamie Le Fay, Disillusion

tags: body-image, body-positive, body-positivity, feminism, feminist, sexuality

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“The body—objectified, sexualised, feared, hunted, worshiped—always the body, they adored him or hated him before they ever knew him. The body crushed him; he was its slave. He felt empty, reduced to a soulless thing.”
― Jamie Le Fay, Disillusion

tags: objectification, sexualisation

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“I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

tags: life-lesson

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Our Shared Shelf — 222858 members — last activity Apr 23, 2026 05:32PM
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

Dystopia Land — 5543 members — last activity Apr 10, 2026 04:08AM
THE BIGGEST GROUP FOR DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE ON GOODREADS. What you can do in the group? * You can say 'Hi', or tell us what you are reading * Yo ...more

Ms. Reviews & Bookmarks — 643 members — last activity Oct 25, 2016 09:33PM
Ms. Reviews and Bookmarks from Ms Magazine. In its 35 years of publishing, no other magazine has influenced public policy, the way we live, and our h ...more

Indie and Self-Published Author Support — 1120 members — last activity Apr 19, 2026 09:52AM
Breaking into the world of writing through the self-publishing gateway can be daunting and overwhelming. This is a support group where indie and aspir ...more

There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast Group — 64 members — last activity Aug 18, 2024 10:27AM
Official Goodreads group for the literary-based podcast There Might Be Cupcakes, written and hosted by Carla Pettigrew Hufstedler: Books, Horror, True ...more

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