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« but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features – mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her! »

« Disturbed her? No! she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years – incessantly – remorselessly – till yesternight – and yesternight, I was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep, by that sleeper, with my heart stopped, and my cheek frozen against hers. »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer – but yours! How can I? »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« I have not broken your heart – you have broken it – and in breaking it, you have broken mine »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me! »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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«  Nelly, I am Heathcliff – he’s always, always in my mind – not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself – but, as my own being – so, don’t talk of our separation again – »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. »

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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« The point of feeling a feeling you can’t do anything about is to let it discharge, complete the cycle, so that it can end. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« There was no relationship between the grades women gave their orgasms and the genital responses traditionally treated as “markers” of orgasm, such as number of contractions of the pelvic floor muscle. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« If we had a more sex-positive culture, women’s desire would be more like men’s!” which is the same men-as-default myth that causes women to feel broken. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« But hormones are a small—often negligible—part of the context that shapes a woman’s sexual wellbeing, so changing them can make only a small—often negligible—impact »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« Might the culture be less tolerant of the suffering of girls, if that suffering isn’t to feed boys’ hunger but only feeds their interest? Maybe not, I don’t know. But I do know that men’s sexual entitlement is a primary reason they sexually assault women.12 »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« and pow! you’re saying to yourself, “I would like some sex!” This is how it works for maybe 75 percent of men and 15 percent of women »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« If that’s true, then when your doctor taps your knee’s patellar tendon and your leg kicks out, that must mean you actually want to kick your doctor. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« Genital response is specific to sexually relevant stimuli—regardless of whether those stimuli are sexually appealing. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« There is about a 50 percent overlap between what a male’s genitals respond to as “sexually relevant” and what his brain responds to as “sexually appealing.” And there is about a 10 percent overlap between what a female’s genitals respond to as “sexually relevant” and what her brain responds to as “sexually appealing.”  »

« Want to lose ten pounds without diet or exercise? Cut off your leg at the knee! I guarantee, the next time you step on a scale, you’ll weigh less.
• Or, hey, want to lose five pounds of fat? Have your brain removed—its mass is almost 100 percent fat!
• You know who’s always thin? People who’ve been living in a prison camp!

« Students laugh like I made a joke when I ask, “What would happen if you met your friends at dinner and said, ‘I feel so beautiful today!’?”
“Really, what would happen?” I insist.
“No one would do that,” they tell me.
“But . . . how often would someone meet friends at dinner and say, ‘I feel so fat today’?”
“All the time,” they say. »

« Love, according to the parable, is the pursuit of our own wholeness. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« And in a culture where women have to spend so much time with the brakes on, saying no, it’s no wonder we have fantasies about abandoning all control, relaxing into absolute trust (turning off the brakes) and allowing ourselves to experience sensation. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« male and female bodies—there’s at least as much variability within those groups as there is between those groups. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« And it turns out, both women and men “get wet.” The male homologue, the Cowper’s gland, just below the prostate, produces preejaculate. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« While we can see obvious group differences when we look at populations—male and female bodies—there’s at least as much variability within those groups as there is between those groups. »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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« No, what’s an Escher girl?”
“They’re the female characters in comics with abdomens so flat there’s no room for their internal organs, and their spines are impossibly twisted so that you can see both boobs and both butt cheeks at the same time. Their poses are so anatomically absurd that they’re named after an artist famous for impossible illusions. »

« Medieval anatomists called women’s external genitals the “pudendum,” a word derived from the Latin pudere, meaning “to make ashamed.” Our genitalia were thus named “from the shamefacedness that is in women to have them seen.”1 »

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Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski
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STOP SAYING HE IS MORALLY GREY HE IS AN ASSHOLE END OF STORY

Find the odd one out: « Toys. Money. Business ventures. And now…a woman »

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The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires Book 1)
Lauren Asher
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What is this author’s obsession with the word cock?!???
He thinks he’s mister Darcy stfu

This boy makes me have more emotions than anyone in the past two years