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Standing on the peak of a four-thousand-foot mountain that I’ve climbed is all the exhilaration and achievement I’ve ever needed. On every single summit I’ve ever climbed my life feels small; not insignificantly so, but reassuringly so.
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“Popular culture isn’t an innocuous force; we don’t go through adolescence—watching scenes and reading books and hearing jokes and listening to all kinds of dialogue—while wearing an invisible force field that bounces bad ideas away. We learn an awful lot of what we know from the stories we encounter.”
― Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
― Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
“Finally, we come to the realization that life is just a laboratory, and we're all doing the best we can. We are only passing through, so let's learn how to love ourselves and others, find joy, and do no harm.”
― The Forever Days: A Memoir of Soul Healing and a Lifetime of Summers at the Lake
― The Forever Days: A Memoir of Soul Healing and a Lifetime of Summers at the Lake
“Keda felt her heart was breaking with a love so universal that it drew into its fiery atmosphere all things because they were; the evil, the good, the rich, the poor, the ugly, the beautiful, and the scratching of this little yellowish hound.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of sexuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
― Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
“we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
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