Mary Rose

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Mary is Currently Reading

Mary Rose is currently reading

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

by Jack Lowery (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 29, 2026 04:15PM

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Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

by Briona Simone Jones

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Feb 08, 2026 02:55PM

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The Raven and the Crown

by John Bedell

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Mary’s Quotes

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

949 likes

“I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

tags: art, atheism, religion

6 likes

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: aging, old-age, solitude

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“Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies

tags: education, knowledge, learning

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