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“Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.”
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
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(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
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“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.”
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“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."
It is the creed of a slave.”
― How Children Fail
It is the creed of a slave.”
― How Children Fail
Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jennifer’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
257 books
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34 friends
458 books
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28 friends
1,219 books
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67 friends
1,106 books
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107 friends
773 books
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84 friends
5,428 books
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163 friends
993 books
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78 friends
11 books
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175 friends
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