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This book isn’t great but I’m going to push through anyway haha

[Austen’s heroines] were inexperienced and needed to discover their feelings, or they were neglected and needed to stand up for them… Their problem…was that they had too great a belief in their own feelings. They had achieved the relative autonomy of adolescence-learning to trust yourself-but now they had to take the next step, into the full autonomy of adulthood. They needed to learn to doubt themselves.

I was twenty-six, and about as dumb, in all human things, as any twenty-six-year-old has a right to be, when I met the woman who would change my life. That she'd been dead for a couple of hundred years made not the slightest difference what-soever. Her name was Jane Austen, and she would teach me everything I know about everything that matters.