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Ba didn’t know the word “so.” His question came out like this: “Why white?” Mel said, “It’s clean.” That was the end of the conversation. When Ba told the uncles what Mel had said, they stared at him blankly. “No,” they said, turning to the
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Interesting cultural disconnect, ideas of "whiteness." Highlights relationship between Mel and the refugees he's hosting and making do menial labor.
“Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
― The Princess Bride
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
― The Princess Bride
“People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.”
― The Mark of Athena
― The Mark of Athena
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