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‘Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.’”
“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“Imperfection is beautiful and a necessary aspect of human nature. Perfection is impossible. What should we strive towards instead? A greater understanding of and the growth of ourselves and the people around us is rooted in accepting imperfection, even celebrating it.”
― Fragments: Essays and Philosophies
― Fragments: Essays and Philosophies
“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
― The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
― The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
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Lizzie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lizzie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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