In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult.
“I want to be happy,” says dad. “I want to be interested and challenged by whatever verb I elect to noun in any given moment of my life. If I am healthy, my family’s healthy, and I am of sound enough mind to sustain curiousity around my work, then I’m blessed.”
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“What is modern society’s obsession with wiping out all diversity and nuance in favor of cheap, shoddy monoliths?”
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“You’re not going to change your life in a day. It took two years and antianxiety medication for me to stop getting overwhelmed about even getting out of bed. Do the next right thing and don’t worry about anything else coming down the pike.”
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“Why do things cost what they do in New York? How am I expected to survive here?”
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“But seriously, how am I supposed to learn how to do this when I’m already in the type of financial ruin that metastasizes this violently?”
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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Comics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Music, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Science fiction, and Young-adult
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