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“A child born to another woman calls me mom. The depth of the tragedy and the magnitude of the privilege are not lost on me.”
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“What marvel-inspiring forces of nature mothers truly are; somehow everything always comes back to and down to them.”
― Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
― Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
“I told them I’d been poor, I told them I’d been ignorant, and in telling them this I felt not the slightest prick of shame. Only then did I understand where the shame had come from: it wasn’t that I hadn’t studied in a marble conservatory, or that my father wasn’t a diplomat. It wasn’t that Dad was half out of his mind, or that Mother followed him. It had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping blades of the Shear, instead of pulling me away from them. It had come from those moments on the floor, from knowing that Mother was in the next room, closing her eyes and ears to me, and choosing, for that moment, not to be my mother at all.”
― Educated
― Educated
“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most quiet form of everyday violence.”
― Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
― Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don’t recognise inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.”
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But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.”
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Katie Lynn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie Lynn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
689 books
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83 friends
134 books
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84 friends
197 books
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121 friends
30 books
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33 friends
70 books
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10 books
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20 friends
7 books
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767 books
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27 friends
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