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“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“No, the mother finally said. I think working mother is perhaps the most nonsensical concept ever concocted. I mean, who isn’t a working mother? And then add a paid job to it, so what are you then? A working working mother? Imagine saying working father.”
― Nightbitch
― Nightbitch
“But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Libres ou enfermées, en fin de compte, les femmes étaient les premières concernées par des decisions qu’on prenait sans leur accord.”
― Le Bal des folles
― Le Bal des folles
“When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Oh Canada
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Canadians, please come and share your favourite national literature on the group bookshelf... whether it's books by Canadian authors, those featuring ...more
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Hello everyone, So we at Penguin Random House Canada have a conundrum. We're maxed out a 5000 friends and can't add anymore faces to our GoodReads f ...more
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A book group hosted by Glasgow Libraries. A great way to meet other readers and discover new authors. We look forward to sharing and reviewing books w ...more
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