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Book cover for Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1)
But she had indulged in a summer of passion, and it had left her changed. In the words of Sappho, Eros shook my mind, like a mountain wind falling on oak trees. She had eaten the apple; she could not return to humility. Desire had ruined ...more
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Ashley Poston
“I just wanted to talk to him, to breathe in his words, to understand what made his brilliant mind tick.”
Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Silvia Federici
“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

Ashley Poston
“Dad." I felt a sob bubble up in my throat, like a bird wanting to be set free, and then I gave a wail and buried my face into my best friend's shoulder, on the curb of an empty street, while the world spun on, and on, and on, without my dad in it.
And the Wind did not sing.”
Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

Albert Einstein
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
Albert Einstein

Louisa May Alcott
“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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