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Mercedez is Currently Reading

Mercedez is currently reading

The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

by Michael Norton (Goodreads Author)

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Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi (Goodreads Author)

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How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

by Catherine Price (Goodreads Author)

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Mercedez’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis

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But if we abandon the work of creating statistical truths, we risk abandoning democracy, too.

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Mercedez’s Quotes

“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“The Christians we knew were angry about the burkas we saw on the news. It was un-Christian, they said, to force women to be invisible and uniform. But I silently laughed at that. American Christians had burkas too. I wore one. The denim jumper was the American burka.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

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“Complicity is a choice.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

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“I was doing what I’d spent my life doing: conforming to someone else’s vision so they’d keep me. No one will love you unless you obey their rules.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

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