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“It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Suffering pain is what made you a woman. Most of the milestones in a woman’s life were accompanied by pain, like her first time having sex or birthing a child. For men, it was all orgasms and champagne.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
292 books
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27 friends
1,346 books
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9,752 friends
675 books
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291 friends
195 books
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68 friends
477 books
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14 friends
725 books
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74 friends
195 books
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119 friends
880 books
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56 friends
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