Kathie

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Kathie is Currently Reading

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Heartwood

by Amity Gaige (Goodreads Author)

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Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online

by Fortesa Latifi (Goodreads Author)

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
― Margaret Sanger

tags: abortion, feminism, women

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“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: paradox

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