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Mercedez is Currently Reading

Mercedez is currently reading

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

by Claire Dederer

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Sep 09, 2026 11:40AM

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Black Evidence: A History and a Warning

by Candis Watts Smith

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

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Mercedez’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Witches, Midwives, & Nurses. A History of Women Healers

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses. A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Such protection for her favored few was not to last after Elizabeth’s death in 1602.

This is when the world lost its mind. White men set up a society subjugating women and black and brown people.

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Mercedez’s Quotes

“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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“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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