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I loved this book, devoured it. This was a book Tok recommendation that didn’t disappoint. The fractured family dynamics, even in the midst of war were deeply resonant for me personally. The plot is the lead here, as are the characters which keeps yo ...more "
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I learned so much of American history that has been buried and forgotten in this compelling masterpiece. Wilkerson breathes life and humanity into individual qualitative narratives, uncovering the humanity in our shared history. This should be requir
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think this is the ongoing problem with Baltimore—no matter how many times the city presents itself as something new, there’s always a counternarrative and a chorus of voices that say, “Nah, hon, I knew you when.” As if a city can’t be more
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“Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.”
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― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
“We never had any children,” he said ruefully. “Our work was our children.”
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― Just Kids
“contradiction is the clearest way to truth.”
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― Just Kids
“What will happen to us?” I asked. “There will always be us,” he answered.”
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― Just Kids
“aspirational labor”: “Aspirational labor is a mode of (mostly) uncompensated, independent work that is propelled by the much-venerated ideal of getting paid to do what you love.”55 The problem: doing what you love often does not pay.”
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
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