Lidya
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"Best book EVER but I'm doing too much uni related reading to come back to it before mid summer" — May 18, 2024 04:12AM
"Best book EVER but I'm doing too much uni related reading to come back to it before mid summer" — May 18, 2024 04:12AM
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"I left this book in my Airbnb in Sarajevo and I don't have the money or time to invest in a new copy." — May 18, 2024 04:11AM
"I left this book in my Airbnb in Sarajevo and I don't have the money or time to invest in a new copy." — May 18, 2024 04:11AM
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
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“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
― Electra
― Electra
“This is Electra. Brilliant no more.”
― Electra
― Electra
“But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
― Works and Days and Theogony
― Works and Days and Theogony
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