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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

Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa

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pointed me to statistics that showed the racial disparity in infant mortality was actually greater in the present day than in 1850, when Black women were human chattel and babies of all races died so frequently that parents hesitated to ...more

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Mercedez’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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