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It is the conundrum of being doubly subjugated: You are both invisible and hypervisible, stripped of humanity. And if you are not acknowledged at all, even in the most vulgar of ways, then do you still have a body? Are you still a woman
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From other reviews I gather that some people found passages like this problematic or confusing. But I think this is a perfectly reasonable paradox, it’s a thing that I feel very often. I spend all of my time feeling unseen, wanting to go unnoticed but at the same time broken-hearted at being completely invisible to people.
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
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“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.”
― All the Single Ladies
― All the Single Ladies
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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