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“…mostly I’d just wanted to grow breasts so I could look at them.” so true queen

Huge news for people everywhere: eating food gives you more energy for the things you use your body for!

The idea of “loving up” here is so interesting. In this context Vandyke is talking about how it felt as a man to be removed from patriarchal society but I think as a woman who is attracted to both men and women…it makes a lot of sense in the way it feels to love someone with more societal power than you do. In some ways that kind of admiration feels like worship, or at least devotion

Even though we had marveled at their culture, sophistication, and technological advances, when it came time to marry we *obviously* thought we’d be able to convince these women to do everything our way! Duh! Even though we’ve observed their staunch independence and amazing intelligence it’s shocking they didn’t just abandon all of their beliefs because we told them romance required it

These women didn’t suddenly become powerful when all the men died. Women have always been powerful. The absence of men just created a space for women to be powerful

“These women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments,”

I love that in her feminist imagining of a utopia, women’s clothing had better pockets.

Me when I go to a new country and they have different ideas and a different culture. This book is so much fun! These men are so shocked to arrive in a matriarchal society and not immediately be worshipped. I love that our narrator considers himself a sociologist but doesn’t seem fully capable of understanding that as a different society these women wouldn’t have the same ideas of men as colonialism would have it

“…butting into an unknown country without any sort of a guard or defense. We seemed to think if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women — why, they would be no obstacles at all.”

This is a civilized country, there must be men! Also this book is very good so far, I put off starting it because I wanted to read the introduction by another author but that always seems to slow me down or keep me from actually reading

Unrelated to my progress on this book but I apologize, I’m about to blow up your feed adding stuff to my TBR

I sense something bad coming but I don’t know what it is

Miss Effie has ARRIVED!

Ohhhh it’s THE Wiress! I love this so much this is such an easy read

I knew it would be good but I had no idea it would be so…I’ll use the word thought provoking.

Get in your lab right now and make me a goddamn girlfriend

Timeless moment of love touching love

You fall in love and you just keep falling until everything has fallen away

I’ve been slow to make progress with this book, it’s hard to take time to read it because it makes me so emotional!!

This was one of my fave books ever as a kid and it still holds up. I feel like Gail Carson Levine really knows how to build a world

“See everything as the mother and you will know god”

By becoming continuous war has ceased to exist

The brotherhood can’t be destroyed because it’s not an ordinary organization! Nothing holds it together but an idea which is indestructible!

“You don’t believe that the word’s stories deserve to be told,”

“Maybe, or maybe the problem is there’s no one to tell them to.”

Based on my memory of the movie, I’ve been surprised at how vicious Coriolanus’ thoughts have been. In the movie it seemed like there was a glimmer of him not being entirely bad but in the book he’s obviously just the worst. It definitely helps me understand his character more but also I think in the movie it’s a more interesting choice

Sorry, another quote but further down the page lmao

“What I can say with certainty is that a man has no problem wasting time, especially that of a woman. And they manage to do so in such insidious ways we often don’t notice that it’s happening until it’s too late.”

Olga’s mom is talking about domesticity not taking away women’s capabilities to do other things, but it makes efficiency more important. For fertility, beauty standards, and feminine gender roles, time is always an important part of our lives.

“In a woman’s world time is the most precious commodity, and we don’t have it to waste.”

“Dear god, please let me know what it is to feel loved again.” :(

However, we’ve just unlocked the ascent to the plot!

“When she thought it was love was it just being from Denver?”

What is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid

This format is really fun but also you have to be slack-literate to understand which is annoying to know how well you know all of this shit

You can read a chapter and sense there’s something coming, and then it happens but then there’s one more sentence that Tim writes that is a complete shock and it feels like a knife.

“If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.”