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“Remember the Simone de Beauvoir quote,” she said, “ ‘You can’t have everything you want but you can want everything you want.’ ”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“The women I dated were often my age, that was fine. But the men always had to be older than me because if they were my same age then it became too obvious how much more powerful I was and this was a turnoff for both of us. Men needed a head start for it to be even.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“It’s hard to be knocked down when you’re on all fours.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to compress myself down into a single convenient entity that one person could understand. I was a kaleidoscope, each glittering piece of glass changing as I turned.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
Alexandra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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64 friends
92 books
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180 books
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54 books
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594 books
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281 books
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329 books
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71 friends
480 books
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506 friends
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