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We spend our lives as adults making sense of the memories we carry with us from our childhoods, but we must still be beholden, always, to the facts.
…did my therapist write this line?
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- "Darling, could you stroke my vagina?"-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
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Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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