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“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”
― Water for Elephants
― Water for Elephants
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.”
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.”
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Judy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Judy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
721 books
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19 friends
278 books
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10 friends
213 books
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60 friends
136 books
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29 friends
953 books
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120 friends
104 books
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1 book
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3 books
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97 friends
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