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call me a crazy darn feminist but the attack on mrs joe reaaaalllllyyyyyy reminds me of the ‘lobotomized woman’ trope

accustomed to ye old english I am becoming

"pause of you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day"

ch 9

“be it or be it son’t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be an uncommon one, i should hope! the king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, cant sit and write his acts of Parliament in print without having begun, when he were an unprompted prince, with the alphabet - Ah!”

“the essence of life is that its challenging. sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter… from an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of our basic experience. to be fully alive, fully human, is to be continually thrown out of the nest. running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life”

ch 11

“hope and fear come from a feeling that we lack something; it comes from a sense of poverty. we hold onto hope, and it robs us of the present moment.

if we’re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation.

death and hopelessness provide proper motivation for living an insightful, compassionate life”

(ch.7)

“hope and fear come from a feeling that we lack something; it comes from a sense of poverty. we hold onto hope, and it robs us of the present moment…

if were willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation

death and motivation provide proper motivation for living an insightful, compassionate life”

(ch.7)

this series is a little dangerous because i have a lot of work to do but i cannot put the book down

“if my mother had only created Acorn, the refuge for the homeless and orphaned.. if she had created Acorn and not Earthseed, then i think she would have been a wholly admirable person” (60)

“maybe i love him. sometimes i think i do. he says he loves me. but if all i had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, i think id kill myself” (82).