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Monica is Currently Reading

Monica is currently reading

Good Daughtering: The Work You’ve Always Done, the Credit You’ve Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough

by Allison M. Alford (Goodreads Author)

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Denison Avenue

by Christina Wong

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Monica’s Quotes

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: education, lifelong-learning

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

23479 likes

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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From The Book Fairies comes... The Fairy Book Club! We will be choosing a book every 2 months to discuss, and you are free to join us along the way :) ...more

Brantford Public Library's Online Book Club — 159 members — last activity Jun 30, 2018 07:00PM
Welcome to the Brantford Public Library's new Online Book Club. Every two months we will post a new book and we invite you to join the discussion. ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223190 members — last activity 4 hours, 31 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more