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“The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .”
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“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”
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“To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.”
― The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
― The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
Sommer’s 2025 Year in Books
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66 friends
845 books
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4,940 friends
594 books
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333 books
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802 books
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119 books
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385 books
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