Status Updates From Le Monde selon Garp

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"I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made me a sexual suspect. I wanted a baby, but I didn't want to have to share my body or my life to have one. That made me a sexual suspect, too." And that was what made her vulgar, too. (...) Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.

💬 This is so fun already, I'm really wondering about these reviews saying it has a slow start. It's a charming start (so far!)

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So Jenny waited for her brothers to clear things up. They were law school men from Cambridge, across the river. (...) "Both," Garp wrote, "were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it sublime."

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"She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them."

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"She felt detached from her family (...) and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and begin the expectations —as if, for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations."

👁️👋Hello 11th book on my currently reading list that's way too long to be squeezed in this casually....

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"(...)This was shortly after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and people were being tolerant of soldiers, because suddenly everyone *was* a soldier. Jenny Fields was quite firm in her intolerance of the behavior of men in general and soldiers in particular."

I don't know if it's feminist