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"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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