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The sense of difference that many women feel, I believe, stems from this uneven profile. It makes it very hard to work out where you belong when you are brilliant at things that others find hard, but useless at things that others find easy.
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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
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“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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