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A book hasn’t made me literally laugh out loud like this in ages 😭

this book is stunning. and that’s an understatement.

Regret this but too far to quit now fr

“Integrity is the true writer’s determination not to buckle under market forces, not to strange her own voice for the take of a public who prefers its words in whispers.”

Don’t get me wrong. I admire bell hooks (and her work), but there have been at least three instances where she at length rebutted criticism that her work is repetitive. …that speaks for itself, right?

Ok I’m now I’m tooooo invested

I’ve started this book a few times in past… this time I will see it through.

“No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the passion of writing words.”

Need a physical copy of this ASAP — I’m itching to write in the margins