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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
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“First to create difference — to establish strangeness — then to let the fiery arc of human emotion leap and close the gap: this acrobatics of the imagination fascinates and satisfies me as almost no other.”
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“The same forces that have a disregard for black life, for the lives of the indigenous, for the marginalized, for the lives of women, are the same forces who disregard the life of the Earth itself; individuals who see themselves set apart from other people, who imagine themselves disconnected from the natural world over which they short-sightedly assume mastery, who see the destruction and degradation of life as a fair exchange for the tightly policed boundaries of ethno-nationalist identities, the pursuit of wealth or the achievement of billionaire status.”
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Martha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Martha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
155 books
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13 friends
410 books
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37 friends
541 books
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85 friends
194 books
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66 friends
98 books
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18 friends
128 books
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19 friends
980 books
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192 friends
32 books
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48 friends
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