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This is how it tends to work. We don’t find ourselves shaming others loudly in the staff meeting apart from our own shame telling us that we are not enough.
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“You are your best thing”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
Paige’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Paige’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
351 books
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84 friends
490 books
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88 friends
755 books
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11 friends
573 books
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22 friends
429 books
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46 friends
373 books
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6 friends
352 books
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68 friends
74 books
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5 friends
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