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“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker (via aninsufferableknowitall)
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“I’ve never read William Faulkner,
and this leaves me out of certain...”
– Teresa Petro-Micchelli, While We’re Talking About Books (via grammatolatry)
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“She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently, and that for...”
– Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po (via holdonmagnolia)
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“f I have any romantic notions left,
please let me abandon them here
on the...”
– 4th of July, Keetje Kuipers (via jessieflux)
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“I had the I Corps DTs, livers, spleens, brains, a blue-black swollen thumb moved...”
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“I’ve only known you for hours. We drink together.
We drink and we get drunk. I...”
– William L. Alton, Dancing With A Brand New Lover (via grammatolatry)
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“I don’t think in terms of a male or a female point of view. I think in terms of...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, in our new issue (via theparisreview)
It must be nice to be a man and be able to say stuff like this. It must be nice to be a man, period. Of course Eugenides can think in “terms of individual people”—it’s very easy for a man to do this. Try being a woman, try thinking in “terms...
