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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

by Emily Nagoski (Goodreads Author)

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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)

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“She knew that the suffering of women started in the suffering of men, that the bondages of one became the bondages of the other.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

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“Perhaps that was why she had spent her childhood with a book in front of her face, trying to make sense of her life through stories. Books were her only reliable source of comfort, her only hope.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

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“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

tags: ego, egoism, id, perspective, self-awareness, wanting, wishing

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“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun

“Our longing for community and purpose is so powerful that it can drive us to join groups, relationships, or systems of belief that, to our diminished or divided self, give the false impression of belonging. But places of false belonging grant us conditional membership, requiring us to cut parts of ourselves off in order to fit in. While false belonging can be useful and instructive for a time, the soul becomes restless when it reaches a glass ceiling, a restriction that prevents us from advancing. We may shrink back from this limitation for a time, but as we grow into our truth, the invisible boundary closes in on us and our devotion to the groupmind weakens. Your rebellion is a sign of health. It is the way of nature to shatter and reconstitute. Anything or anyone who denies your impulse to grow must either be revolutionised or relinquished.”
― Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

tags: belonging, dreams, groups-of-people, rebellion

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