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“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
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“Anyone can grow into something beautiful.”
― The Language of Flowers
― The Language of Flowers
“To know there was someone whom I could always count on but who also let me be whatever I wanted to be gave me more security than anything else could.”
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
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Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Our Great American Read
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A place where we can compare the books we've read on the PBS Great American Read list and choose the books we haven't read to read together. ...more
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This is a group for all of us who love historical nursing fiction, and things similar to BBC's Call The Midwife! Please share similar reads that you ...more
Around the World
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Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
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