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Jennifer is Currently Reading

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The Liars' Club

by Mary Karr

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May 14, 2026 06:50PM

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Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

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May 07, 2026 06:34AM

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Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)

by Olivia Waite (Goodreads Author)

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“Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.”
― Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

tags: feminism

18 likes

“Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.”
― Tove Jansson, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

tags: creativity, passion, work

4 likes

“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

tags: knowledge, life, philosophy, physics

70 likes

“There is no precedent for women getting their own "everything" and learning that it's not the answer.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We're being independent and bad bitches while wearing fucking lipstick and heels so as not to offend your delicate aesthetic sensibility, yet even just the word "feminist" pisses you off. How dare we.”
― Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

tags: feminism

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