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"I did the same thing when I was your age," said her grandmother. "I daresay I wasn't like other girls harder than anyone else ever was. I was so unlike other girls that I wasn't even like myself, except on Sundays."

The labor went very much the same way that kania's had, which seemed strange to Marra. Then again, peasants and princesses all shit the same and have their courses the same, so I suppose it's no surprise that babies all come out the same way, too. Having thus accidentally anticipated a few centuries' worth of revolutionary political thought, Marra got down to the business of boiling water and making tea.

I'm not convinced Cherie Priest understands how laptops work

Already detracting a star because of a dead animal. Them's the rules!

I thought I'm going to be bored of this but now I'm weirdly invested?? Weird. Also, cousin Collins is super gross.

"Masculinity was a glass vase perpetually at the edge of the table."

"Γι' αυτό μην προσπαθείς να μου εκλιγικεύσεις έναν εξ ορισμού παράλογο φόβο, διότι πολύ απλά τον έχω ανάγκη. Είναι η μοναδική ανοιχτή γραμμή άμεσης επικοινωνίας με την παιδική μου ηλικία. Και αν χάσω αυτό τον φόβο, αν του ρίξω φόλα λογικής και τον δηλητηριάσω, ο μόνος φόβος που θα υπάρχει πλέον διαθέσιμος θα είναι αυτός του θανάτου, και αν αρχίσεις να φοβάσαι το θάνατο έχεις ήδη αρχίσει να πεθαίνεις."

What kind of people are we if we can't traverse the landscape of our own memories? What kind of people do they become who refuse?

"When I was five or six, I saw Bambi, because this is a baffling thing that parents still do to their children."

Preach

"[P]retending that the supernatural is real just drives home how much it's not."

I think West just nailed why I can't seem to get into Urban Fantasy.

"As Noam Chomsky says (and he knows): 'So like in the Soviet Union, 'anti-Sovietism' was considered the gravest of all crimes... As far as I know, the United States is the only free society that has such a concept... 'Americanism' and 'anti-Americanism' and 'un-Americanism'... are concepts which go along with 'harmony' and 'getting rid of those outsiders'.'"

"Connell's initial assessment of the reading was not disproven. It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about."

"Denice decided a long time ago that it is acceptable for men to use aggression towards Marianne. As a child Marianne resisted, but now she simply detaches, as if it isn't of any interest to her, which in a way it isn't. Denise considers this a symptom of her daughter's frigid and unloveable personality. She believes Marianne lacks 'warmth', by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her."

"These blues women had no qualms about announcing female desire. Their songs express women's intention to 'get their loving'. Such affirmations of sexual autonomy and open expressions of sexual desire give historical voice to possibilities of equality not articulated elsewhere. Women's blues and the cultural politics lived out in the careers of the blues queens put these new possibilities on the historical agenda."

"Fearless, unadorned realism is a distinctive feature of the blues. Their representations of sexual relationships are not constructed in accordance with the sentimentality of the American popular song tradition. Romantic love is seldom romanticized in the blues. No authentic blues woman could, in good faith, sing with conviction about a dashing prince whisking her into the 'happily-ever-after'."

I was given this book as a gift and I decided to see what it's about but I've read 10 pages and I already want to stab my eyes with a fork.

Alternative title for this: Rich People Problems

Do you ever recognise what you're reading as a 1-star book at best from very early on but you keep reading because it's so ridiculous you're actually enjoying hating it?

"Claire knows Sofia's obsessed about her body. I think it's an Italian thing, to worry about how you present yourself to men."

...??

"Happily, when all is said and done, anarchism is the grand yet not modest belief, embraced by people throughout human history, that we can imagine and also implement a wholly marvellous and materially abundant society. That is the spirit of anarchism, the ghost that haunts humanity: that our lived and communities really can be appreciably better. And better, and then better still."

I'm posting this here as well as in other social media because I think it's important information.

Short version because GR apparently doesn't like long updates: "For those who want to support the Black Lives Matter movement but are unable to donate time or money, YouTubers are creating monetized videos specifically for the cause."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...

"A cultural revolution is also necessary in the concept of old age, against its degrading representation as a fiscal burden on the state, on one side and, on the other, an 'optional' stage in life that we can overcome and even prevent, if we adopt the right medical technology and the 'life enhancing' devices disgorge by the market."

"Up to now the working class, male and female, had its working day defined by capital -from punching in to punching out. That defined the time we belonged to Capital and the time we belonged to ourselves. But we have never belonged to ourselves, we have always belonged to Capital every moment of our lives and it is time that we make Capital pay for every moment of it."