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“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”
― Candide and Other Stories
― Candide and Other Stories
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”
― A Northern Light
― A Northern Light
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
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“The ugly truth is that more people are still motivated by the desire to prioritize men's income generating and reputations than they are by the desire to ensure women's rights and safety.”
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
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