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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Today, teachers tend to look for their students’ intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students’ moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
52 weeks, 52 books
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Nancy’s 2025 Year in Books
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