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The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe

by Jeffrey L. Singman

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

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Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

by Lillian Faderman (Goodreads Author)

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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
― Mary Oliver

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them”
― Mary Oliver

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