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The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

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Aug 18, 2026 10:24AM

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Sontag: Her Life and Work

by Benjamin Moser

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Jul 07, 2023 09:42AM

“Today we have a cultural norm that insists we hide our racism from people of color and deny it among ourselves, but not that we actually challenge it. In fact, we are socially penalized for challenging racism.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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“But you have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

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“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

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