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“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
“Shame, turned inside out, is rage.”
― Shout
― Shout
“The presence of those cameras finally acknowledges," he said to me, "that justice systems anywhere, anytime, have never cared whether justice was achieved or not. Like Roman games, justice systems are ways for unjust governments--and there is not other sort of government--to be enormously entertaining with real lives at stake.”
― God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
― God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would offer him sympathy. I didn’t know that my loss of memory would become his opportunity. I didn’t know that being a victim was synonymous with not being believed.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“If the mortal sin of the suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself—which, because it is inevitable, means nothing.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
Frances’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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180 books
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662 books
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402 books
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374 books
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378 books
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416 books
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2,822 books
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191 friends
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